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Summary

• Ukrainian drones set a refinery ablaze in Russia’s Ryazan region on Thursday, after Kyiv ended a short pause on attacks against Russian oil refineries.
• Zelenskyy ends pause on Russian oil refineriesThe attack followed a newspaper interview in which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a truce rejected by Moscow had run its course.
• Starlink and intelligence rowIn addition, Zelenskyy said Kyiv had stopped getting its usual Western alerts about incoming Russian ballistic missiles.

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Ukrainian drones set a refinery ablaze in Russia’s Ryazan region on Thursday, after Kyiv ended a short pause on attacks against Russian oil refineries.

The blaze broke out at a plant some 300 kilometers southeast of Moscow, according to local Gov. Pavel Malkov and Russia’s Defense Ministry. Ukraine had “attempted a massive attack on the Ryazan oil refinery,” the ministry said.

A senior Ukrainian official, who requested anonymity, said Kyiv’s forces were behind the strike.

Zelenskyy ends pause on Russian oil refineries

The attack followed a newspaper interview in which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a truce rejected by Moscow had run its course. “We’re done,” he told the paper.

For three days, Ukraine had held its fire after U.S. President Donald Trump called on Sunday for an “energy ceasefire.” Yet Kyiv said Russia kept pounding its power network throughout that period.