Ukraine says its strikes on oil refineries have forced Russia to start importing jet fuel for its warplanes

Ukraine said complete the play that its strikes connected Russian lipid facilities person reduced accumulation truthful overmuch that Russia is now having to import substance for its warplanes.

On Saturday, Ukraine's GUR, the country's subject intelligence agency, said that "systematic and precise strikes by Ukraine's Defense Forces against Russia's oil-refining web person led to a important simplification successful pitchy substance accumulation successful the Russian Federation."

It said that Russia's increasing aerial attacks against Ukraine, "combined pinch the request to prolong civilian aerial transport, person resulted successful a shortage of home resources."

"To meet the needs of subject and civilian aviation, Russia, which for decades has positioned itself arsenic an power superpower, has officially introduced a impermanent prohibition connected the export of its ain aviation substance and is being forced to activity ways to import overseas Jet A-1 aviation fuel," the GUR said.

That substance is compatible pinch a scope of Russian subject craft utilized to motorboat missiles and bombs, arsenic good arsenic jet-powered drones. The GUR added that Russia is now fueling its Il-76MD-90A subject carrier pinch substance extracurricular shaper recommendations.

The GUR said that Russia had purchased astatine slightest 70,000 tonnes of aviation substance from South Korea and Egypt that was delivered connected 3 protector fleet tankers. The fleet is simply a web of vessels that Russia uses to circumvent Western sanctions done hidden ownership, among different methods.

The GUR Saturday said that Russian efforts to "circumvent sanctions will inevitably person an due response."

Ukraine is conducting a awesome long-range onslaught run targeting lipid and state accommodation wrong Russia successful a bid to harm the country's economy, which depends heavy connected the power sector, and frustrate its expertise to proceed its penetration of Ukraine. The strikes person deed targets hundreds of miles into Russia.

Ukraine refers to these strikes against Russia's system arsenic "long-range sanctions." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised this period that "there will beryllium much Ukrainian heavy strikes, which should show to Russia and the Russians that bid is necessary."

Ukraine has significantly accrued the pace of these strikes this twelvemonth and claimed a big of wins against targets this month, including strikes connected refineries, processing facilities, and terminals. The state has said that immoderate sites person halted operations arsenic a result.

Zelenskyy said successful June that astir 40% of Russia's superior lipid refining capacity was offline arsenic of the erstwhile month. And he said this period that it remains a privilege for Ukraine.

Russia's system is heavy limited connected lipid and gas. Western sanctions person affected the industry, but Russia besides received a reprieve erstwhile the warfare successful Iran constricted different power sources by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a way Russia does not trust on. Kyiv is trying to reconstruct immoderate of that pressure.

Ukraine has chiefly utilized homemade cruise missiles and drones to deed targets wrong Russia. Though Western partners provided long-range weapons, restrictions connected their usage wrong Russia forced Ukraine's booming defense manufacture to create home solutions.

Ukraine has unveiled caller weaponry pinch longer ranges successful caller months to deepen its campaign, including drones pinch ranges exceeding 1,800 miles.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's erstwhile defense minister, said this period that Ukraine could beryllium tin of hitting Russian territory pinch domestically made ballistic missiles wrong the adjacent 3 to six months. These weapons typically person longer ranges and move overmuch faster than cruise missiles.

Ukraine is fighting against barrages of Russian strikes connected its territory that are stretching its aerial defenses thin. A cardinal target Kyiv seeks to prosecute is the rocket launchers wrong Russia.

Russia has been intensifying its strikes connected Ukraine. Zelenskyy said connected Sunday that successful the past week, Russia launched almost 2,000 onslaught drones, much than 1,600 glide bombs, and 31 missiles, including North Korean ballistic missiles, astatine Ukraine.

Ukraine's long-range onslaught campaign, which is focused solely connected morganatic subject targets alternatively than cities and civilian infrastructure for illustration Russian strikes, has yet to push Moscow toward negotiations for ending hostilities, but Kyiv hopes that the substance shortages will raise the costs of the warfare and constrain immoderate attacks.