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Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Just days after the Biden administration signed a new\u00a0military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine,\u00a0Kyiv launched a series of\u00a0suicide drone attacks on\u00a0Russian oil refineries.\u00a0Biden’s top officials have pleaded with\u00a0Kyiv to stop attacks on\u00a0Russia’s energy infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0because of the fears that turmoil in crude markets would send pump prices in the US higher ahead of the presidential elections in November.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs,”\u00a0Smolensk Governor Vasily Anokhin wrote in a post on\u00a0Telegram on\u00a0Wednesday. Kamikaze drones damaged oil facilities in western Russia.<\/p>\n

Another drone attack hit the\u00a0Lipetsk region further south, which is home to steel production plants and\u00a0pharmaceutical sites, Governor Igor Artamonov said.<\/p>\n

“The Kyiv criminal regime tried to hit infrastructure in Lipetsk industrial zone,” Artamonov said.<\/p>\n

The Moscow Times<\/a>\u00a0pointed out:<\/p>\n

A source in the Ukrainian defense sector confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that drones in the service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had carried out the attacks.<\/em><\/p>\n

The source made no mention of the attack on Lipetsk but claimed\u00a0two oil depots were destroyed\u00a0in the Smolensk region.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rosneft lost two storage and pumping bases for fuels and lubricants in the towns of Yartsevo and Rozdorovo,” the source said, referring to the Russian state-controlled energy giant.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Financial Times, citing unnamed US officials, recently said long-range drones have hit at least 20 energy facilities deep within Russia so far this year.\u00a0Kyiv’s drone attacks on Russia’s energy complex have been frightening for the Biden administration, as Brent prices have risen to the $90\/bbl level on higher war risk premiums. Higher energy costs feed into inflation as stagflation concerns mount in the US. Also, gasoline pump prices in the US are inching closer to the\u00a0politically sensitive<\/a>\u00a0$4 level.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas Just days after the Biden administration signed a new\u00a0military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine,\u00a0Kyiv launched a series of\u00a0suicide drone attacks on\u00a0Russian oil refineries.\u00a0Biden’s top officials have pleaded with\u00a0Kyiv to stop attacks on\u00a0Russia’s energy infrastructure\u00a0because of the fears that turmoil in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1423,33934,1729,592,694,821,827,834,4318],"class_list":["post-67614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-gasoline-price","tag-long-range-missiles","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-oil-price","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67615,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions\/67615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}