Russia Hits Ukraine Power Sites Before Winter
Russia Hits Ukraine Power Sites Before Winter
The News
Russia struck energy facilities and other sites across southern Ukraine overnight, Bloomberg reported Sunday, as Ukraine braces for a hard winter with its power system under attack.
In the same wave, a Russian drone hit a gas station near Ukraine's border with Poland, Ukrainian authorities told CNN — part of a run of strikes on fuel stations as both sides escalate the air war.
Ukraine hit back deep inside Russia, targeting an oil-refining hub, according to Bloomberg.
Timeline
Ukrainian Economy Minister Oleksandr Kravchenko says intensified Russian attacks on infrastructure and key export industries are compounding a deepening budget crisis, Newsmax reported.
Russia strikes energy facilities and other sites across southern Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. Ukrainian forces target an oil-refining hub inside Russian territory the same night.
Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone hit a gas station near the Polish border, CNN reported, the latest in a series of attacks on fuel sites.
Reactions
Kravchenko, Ukraine's economy minister, said damage to infrastructure is piling onto a worsening budget crunch as the country heads into winter, according to Newsmax.
Ukrainian authorities described the gas station strike near the Polish border as one in a series of attacks on fuel infrastructure, CNN reported.
What's Next
Ukraine is heading into the cold months with its power and fuel network under repeated attack, and officials say the damage is hitting export industries and the national budget at the same time.
Both sides are widening the air war — Russia against Ukrainian energy sites, Kyiv against Russian oil refining — so more long-range strikes are the expected pattern.
Why Americans Should Care
Strikes on a refining hub inside Russia and on fuel stations in Ukraine hit the same global energy supply chain that sets prices at the pump, and a drone landing near the Polish border puts the fighting on NATO's doorstep.
Poll
Should the U.S. keep backing Ukraine through another winter of Russian strikes on its power grid?
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