(Reuters) US has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports + (Reuters) Ukraine says Russian oil refineries are legitimate targets - Ukraine dramatically stepped up its attacks on Russian energy facilities this month, launching numerous long-range drones to strike Russia's biggest refineries, resulting in the temporary suspension of production at some of them.
- The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday [...]
- The attacks helped boost oil prices that have risen nearly 4% so far since March 12, when Ukraine first started targeting Russia's energy infrastructure.
- "We understand the calls of the U.S. partners, but at the same time we are fighting with the capabilities, resources, and practices that we have," Olha Stefanishyna, the minister, told the Kyiv Security Forum.
(Reuters) Russia pounds Ukrainian power facilities; Zelenskiy seeks air defences, 'political will' - Russia pounded Ukrainian power facilities on Friday in an attack described by Kyiv as the largest airstrike on its energy infrastructure in two years of war, and portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks during its presidential election.
- The missile and drone attack hit a vast dam over the Dnipro river, and left more than a million [people] without power, forcing Kyiv to seek emergency electricity supplies from Poland, Romania and Slovakia [...]
- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, said the strikes proved again that Russian attacks on infrastructure could be halted only with more air defence systems and that required political will from Ukraine's allies.
(Reuters) Russian missiles hit Ukrainian gas storage site, Ukraine boosts power imports - An underground gas storage site in Ukraine has been hit in the recent wave of Russian missile strikes on power facilities, Ukraine's state-run Naftogaz energy firm said on Sunday, but it said natural gas supplies to consumers have been unaffected.
- The energy ministry and distributors said Ukraine ramped up imports of electricity and halted exports on Sunday. [...] Top energy producer DTEK lost 50% of its capacity.
(POLITICO) Major missile barrage targets Kyiv, western Ukraine; Russian ships hit in Crimea - One Russian cruise missile violated Polandâs airspace, prompting the NATO member to scramble F-16 jets. - Moscow launched a huge attack with [57] missiles and drones on Ukraineâs capital of Kyiv and the western region of Lviv on Sunday [...] in the Kremlin's third large missile attack in the past four days, and the second to target the capital.
- One of the missiles launched at western Ukraine briefly entered Polish airspace, Poland said, prompting the NATO member to activate F-16 fighter jets. [...] The object entered Polish space near the town of OserdĂłw and stayed there for 39 seconds.
- At the same time, Ukraine said it hit two Russian landing ships, a communications center and other infrastructure used by Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea. The Yamal and Azov ships were damaged, Ukrainian officials said, according to media reports.
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