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Ukraine resumes refinery strikes after ceasefire ends

Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a brief energy truce, which Moscow had ignored, was over and strikes on Russian oil refineries would resume. The move follows US President Donald Trump's claim of an agreed 'energy ceasefire' that Russia did not observe.

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Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief truce

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukraine is resuming attacks on Russian energy sites. It came after Moscow summarily ignored a claim by US President Donald Trump that an "energy ceasefire" had been agreed.

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Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries amid collapsed energy truce

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Ukraine has resumed drone strikes on Russian oil refineries, including a facility in Russia's Ryazan region, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was abandoning a brief energy ceasefire that Moscow had spurned. U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly condemned the renewed strikes as a 'disgrace' and called Zelenskyy 'more difficult to deal with than Putin.'

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In this event Trump calls Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a ‘disgrace’ Earlier coverage

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DW Published 15 October 2026

Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian refineries as Zelenskyy says 'we're done'

PBS Published 15 October 2026

Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries as relations with Trump sour

Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over amid deepening tensions with Washington.

NPR Published 15 October 2026

Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief truce

Al Jazeera Published 15 October 2026

Russia says Ukraine resumes attacks on oil refineries

Ukraine's president earlier said Kyiv was 'done' with energy ceasefire and that strikes on Russian oil refineries would resume.

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