{"id":2773,"date":"2026-10-16T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:03:52","slug":"ukraines-resumption-of-strikes-on-russian-refineries-is-disgrace-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is ‘disgrace’, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine\u2019s resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a \u2018disgrace\u2019 that keeps global energy prices elevated, US President Donald Trump told the Newsmax \u200bnews outlet in an interview aired on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine struck<\/a> a Russian oil \u200crefinery after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised his willingness to strike deals with Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll he\u2019s doing \u200bis making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that\u2019s a \u200bdisgrace,\u201d Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft \u2060refinery southeast of Moscow, which helps to supply the Russian capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a \u200blot of targets you can hit, but when you shoot at diesel refineries \u200bwhere you make, you know, diesel oil, and we need that, and the world needs that, then he\u2019s not doing a good service for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia rained down missile and drone \u200bstrikes, targeting energy facilities such as power stations, knocking out supply to \u200bhundreds of thousands, and Zelenskiy told the Financial Times that Ukraine\u2019s patience had run out.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration \u200chas \u2060been trying to mediate a ceasefire deal to end the war that started with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n

He repeated to Newsmax his belief that Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin hate each other, which makes it hard \u200bto end the \u200bconflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a \u2060big fan of Zelenskiy,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI think they actually both would like to see it end, but I think I \u200bfind Zelenskiy to be more difficult to deal with than \u200bPutin.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Trump \u2060pressured Kyiv to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries, Ukraine faced<\/a> reduced usage of a satellite system on which it relies for battlefield communications and drone operations.<\/p>\n

The order \u2060came from \u200binside the White House, said<\/a> two US officials and \u200ba Western official briefed on the matter, without specifying who made the decision or was \u200bresponsible for implementing the order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a \u2018disgrace\u2019 that keeps global energy prices elevated, US President Donald Trump told the Newsmax \u200bnews outlet in an interview aired on Thursday. Ukraine struck a Russian oil \u200crefinery after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised his willingness to strike deals with Moscow. \u201cAll he\u2019s doing \u200bis making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that\u2019s a \u200bdisgrace,\u201d Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}