Ukraine has carried out nearly 160 strikes on Russian oil facilities so far in 2025, sapping the energy revenues Moscow uses to fund its invasion, Ukraine’s security chief said Friday.
Kyiv is also developing new ways of attacking the facilities as Moscow steps up air defences around them, the official said.
Ukraine has struck Russian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war but has intensified its attacks in recent months.
The strikes have caused petrol prices in Russia to spike and prompted the Russian government to introduce a total ban on fuel exports, although the Kremlin has downplayed their impact.
“Since the beginning of the year, there have been almost 160 successful strikes on oil extraction and oil refining facilities,” the head of Ukraine’s SBU security service, Vasyl Malyuk, said in a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Among them are six refineries, two oil terminals, three oil depots, and nine oil pumping stations,” Malyuk said.
Malyuk also claimed that Ukraine had destroyed an Oreshnik missile system in southern Russia over a year ago, before Moscow had deployed the experimental hypersonic weapon, without elaborating.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian secret service SBU told AFP that the strike destroyed the missile while it was in a “hangar”.
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