Ukraine Strikes Two Russian Refineries Post-Trump Meeting
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- Ukraine struck two major Russian oil refineries in drone attacks, hitting a Rosneft facility in Ryazan and a Lukoil refinery that caught fire and sustained damage, per AP News and Bloomberg.
- The refinery strikes came just hours after Zelenskyy met with Trump, per AP News, tying the escalation against Russian energy infrastructure to ongoing US-Ukraine diplomacy.
Why it matters: The Financial Times frames these refineries as Putin's strategic energy bet now under direct attack. Ukraine hitting two major facilities simultaneously, hours after a Zelenskyy-Trump meeting, shows the strikes were timed deliberately alongside engagement with Washington, not as a random battlefield event.
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