Ukraine hits Russian energy infrastructure to blunt oil revenue surge

Ukraine hits Russian energy infrastructure to blunt oil revenue surge

Ukraine has doubled its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure and is keeping up that pace into May, targeting refineries, export terminals, Baltic Sea ports, and sanctioned tankers in what analysts at ACLED now describe as a sustained campaign rather than a temporary escalation — one calculated to drain the revenue Russia is drawing from a […]

Ukraine intensifies strikes on Russian oil depots, a real windfall for Moscow since the blockade of Ormuz.

Although the conflict in Ukraine takes place thousands of kilometers from the Persian Gulf, it is directly linked to the crisis in the Middle East, with the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz benefiting a Russian economy that was previously very weakened. Published on 05/04/2026 at 08:41 Reading time: 2min Satellite image released on April 16, 2026, showing smoke rising from the Tuapse oil refinery in southwestern Russia. (HANDOUT / Satellite ima…