Trump demanded Zelenskyy stop hitting Russian refineries—for the second time in a week
Two months ago Trump called the same strikes an escalation that could end the war—now he wants them stopped because of diesel prices.
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Russia has warned its cities about every strike for years. During the heaviest raid yet, on election day, it left the sirens silent
The backlash came even from Russia's own pro-war bloggers, as a major Moscow refinery burned on the final day of voting.
US rebuilt full intelligence sharing with Ukraine—and Kyiv strikes deep inside Russia hit harder
Both parties in Washington now credit the restored flow of satellite data and warnings, reversing a short 2025 cutoff that a Ukrainian officer said cost hundreds of lives.
Seventh time this year: Ukrainian drones torch a top-five Russian refinery in Yaroslavl
The pre-dawn raid sent several columns of black smoke over the Slavneft-YANOS plant, which turns crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel for central Russia.
This Russian refinery makes the jet fuel for Moscow’s warplanes—and Ukraine keeps setting it on fire
Syzran supplies airfields and units of two Russian military districts, and it sits over 800 km from Ukraine. Also, Wildberries confirmed a fire at the Krasny Bor complex, the third of its Leningrad Oblast hubs struck in under two weeks.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces sent FP-1 drones to Ryazan—a refinery and a warehouse burned
Open-source analysts worked through eyewitness frames to place the blaze at the complex the marketplace calls Ryazan: Tyushevskaya. Later in the morning, the drones reached a Perm refinery 1,500 km from Ukraine.
A Siberian fuel plant 2,000 km from the war zone goes offline—drones struck it days ago
The refinery near Tyumen normally turns out roughly half a million tons of gasoline and millions of tons of diesel a year — for now it makes neither, per Reuters sources.
Moscow struggles to stockpile all the missiles it needs—so it fires them straight off the line, Ukraine says
Ukraine's Air Force reads the factory stamps on downed rockets as a sign the Kremlin has lost its cushion of stockpiled firepower.
Ukraine draws up a new target list for its long-range drones—and vows to keep firing
The updated priorities came out of a meeting of Kyiv's top commanders, who cleared the way for a campaign that has already run more than a thousand strikes into Russia this year.
Two Russian oil sites burning north of Kazakhstan—Ukraine hit both in the dark
The twin strikes reached about 800 and more than 1,300 kilometers into Russia, hitting Ulyanovsk and Bashkortostan facilities.
Drones set Russia’s Syzran refinery ablaze 800 km from the war zone — analysts count every primary unit hit
Both crude distillation installations and a gasoline reformer burned at the plant that refines up to 8.9 million tons of oil a year.
Russian MoD claims it shot down nearly 40,000 Ukrainian long-range drones over Russia and Crimea
The figure comes from Defense Ministry tallies compiled by a Russian newspaper.
Drones flew 1,300 km to Russia’s Ufa—then struck Bashneft refineries
Bashkortostan’s head claimed air defenses had shot down the drones and that the damage was caused only by falling debris.
Ukraine confirms strikes on two Tatarstan refineries and rocket-fuel rubber plant in Tolyatti
Ukraine's GenStaff reported fires at all three plants, while monitoring channels reported a fourth hit — on one of Europe's largest petrochemical complexes in the same Tatarstan city.
Russia’s oil production falls for sixth straight month as Ukrainian drone strikes hit storage and transport
Companies redirected crude to restored Baltic and Black Sea ports, lifting exports from 3.17 to 3.64 million barrels a day, while the extraction tax base underneath kept contracting.
Russia’s fuel crisis jumps from 15 to 25 regions in five days—plus six occupied Ukrainian areas
The Russian Energy Ministry created a task force on 8 June to handle the gasoline shortage amid "growing enemy air attacks," but the crisis continued spreading anyway.
Ukraine hits the Kirov junction that routes Siberian crude to the Baltic, plus refinery and oil depot elsewhere in Russia
The Lazarevo station pumps oil toward the export port of Primorsk and on to Belarus, far inside Russian territory.
Volgograd refinery and a key Yaroslavl oil-pipeline station struck in one night
In the afternoon, Russia shut airports 2,000 km from Ukraine over an unprecedented missile alert that covered the entire Urals Federal District, as Kyiv pushed its long-range campaign deeper into Russian territory.
Six of ten Russian refineries hit by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces in May have stopped operating
Tuapse is indefinitely closed.
Moscow’s fuel supplier under fire: Ukrainian drones strike Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery
The plant supplies all grades of gasoline, diesel, and jet kerosene to regions around the Russian capital. Vacuum distillation units were on fire after the overnight strike.