Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region early Thursday, Russia’s defence ministry and Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov said. The strike started a fire at the facility about 300 kilometres southeast of Moscow. A senior Ukrainian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Ukraine had hit the refinery.
The attack came hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky said a brief truce, which he said Moscow had spurned, was over. In an interview with the Financial Times published Thursday, Zelensky said Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries would resume. “We’re done,” he was quoted as saying.
Zelensky was outraged that Russia continued to bombard Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, apparently ignoring Trump’s Sunday demand for both sides to stop such attacks. The Ukrainian government said it had heeded the ceasefire.
Zelensky complained that Ukraine was recently denied the usual Western intelligence on Russian ballistic missile strikes and faced limits on its use of U.S.-made Starlink terminals – both vital for Ukrainian defence and attack operations.
He also slammed Trump’s agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, saying it would allow Russia to press on with its full-scale invasion, now in its fifth year.
In an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, Zelensky said he felt betrayed by Trump’s deal with Putin, the energy ceasefire announcement and the Starlink operational issues. “Really, yes, between us,” he told Morgan when asked if he felt betrayed. “Our country has to survive, and we count on our real partners, strategic partners, the United States and President Trump.”
U.S. efforts under Trump to end the war have made no progress.