Ukraine resuming attacks on Russian oil refineries

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russian refineries Thursday after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump was over.

The attack struck a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, Russia’s Defense Ministry and Ryazan Gov. Pavel Malkov posted on Telegram, according to Reuters .

“The material damage is now being assessed,” Malkov wrote online. “Emergency services are working ​at the scene.”

A senior Ukrainian official confirmed the attack to The Associated Press .

Zelensky, who has expressed his frustration over the deal reached between the U.S. and Russia to allow diesel to enter the U.S. and global marketplace amid a worldwide energy shortage, told Financial Times Thursday that Ukraine’s patience had run out.

“The block is out. We’re done,” he told the outlet.

Zelensky also told British journalist Piers Morgan on his YouTube series “ Uncensored ” on Wednesday that he felt betrayed by Trump’s diesel deal with Putin and with the slowdown to restore satellite speeds via SpaceX’s Starlink services.

“Really, yes, between us,” Zelensky said, when Morgan asked if he felt betrayed. “Our country has to survive, and we count on our real partners, strategic partners, the United States and President Trump. … Energy ceasefire, it’s OK, it’s understandable.”

He added, “It’s the worst version of peace but, anyway, it’s some steps to the peace.”

The Ukrainian leader called the Trump administration’s behavior “really strange and what was not like between partners but that they switch off Starlink, so some actually crazy steps between us.”

Ukraine’s former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Wednesday that SpaceX was restoring speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour in a social media post .

Zelensky added later in the “Uncensored” interview that the slowdown was a “big mistake” and warned that Ukrainians could die if speeds were not restored.

The Ukrainian leader also told Morgan that the U.S. is not “on the right side of history.”

“That’s why it’s painful when President Trump chooses one side, not our side but we are OK that he’s in the middle,” he continued. “But if you’re in the middle you have to stay in the middle, not on the wrong side. I think his advisers are wrong. I don’t know who is pushing him not to the right side. This is not right side of history.”

Zelensky blasted Trump’s deal last Friday as a “gift” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that Russia “will ‘repay’ the diesel with further terror and perfidy.”

But Trump also faced opposition to the deal from Republican lawmakers who said they received no consultation or warning from the administration about the deal. They pointed to a 2022 statute banning Russian energy imports.

“President Trump’s decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law,” GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Curtis (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Alan Armstrong (Okla.) and Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) said in a joint statement .

Tillis on Wednesday also pressed the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into the Starlink issues and asked Musk for more transparency on the issue.