Ukraine says it hit Russian oil sites nearly 160 times in 2025 so far
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Smoke rising from a fire at an oil refinery in Samara, Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack in August 2025.
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- Ukraine has conducted approximately 160 successful strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in 2025, impacting Moscow's energy revenue.
- Targets included six refineries, two oil terminals, three oil depots, and nine oil pumping stations, according to Lt-Gen Vasyl Malyuk.
- Ukraine also claims it destroyed a Russian Oreshnik missile system before its deployment, as stated by an SBU spokesperson.
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KYIV – 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 on Oct 31.
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, Lieutenant-General 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,” Lt-Gen Malyuk said.
Lt-Gen 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,
A spokesman for the Ukrainian secret service SBU told AFP that the strike destroyed the missile while it was in a “hangar”. AFP
