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Ukraine's Deep Strikes Mean 'Significant Change' for War, Former Russian PM Says

NASA imagery showed heat anomalies at the Yanos refinery after a Ukrainian strike, as Russia’s oil-processing rates fell to a two-decade low, analysts said.

  • On Thursday, Ukrainian forces struck the Yanos oil refinery in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, with NASA FIRMS imagery capturing heat anomalies at the site indicating potential fires.
  • Kyiv has been carrying out almost daily strikes on Russian energy assets to pressure the Kremlin, as drone attacks deepen fuel shortages across Russia and oil-processing rates dropped to their lowest in over two decades.
  • The Yanos refinery has a design capacity of about 300,000 barrels a day and is located about 280 kilometers northeast of Moscow, supplying fuel to the Russian capital and surrounding areas.
  • Russia's growing budget deficit reached 2.5% of GDP as of last month, according to preliminary Finance Ministry data. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium confirmed overnight strikes set fire to the Nordic Zenith tanker off Russia's Black Sea coast.
  • President Donald Trump claimed this week that President Vladimir Putin is "ready to make a deal," possibly "soon." Trump asserted he is the only Western leader capable of pressuring Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to end the fighting.
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Ukraine's deep strikes mean 'significant change' for war, former Russian PM says

Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov attends a march in memory of Russian opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov on March 1, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Once one of the most powerful men in Russia, Mikhail Kasyanov now lives in exile in Latvia, his name on a list of “extremists and terrorists” that the Kremlin alleges are trying to overthrow the state. Kasyanov first serve…

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