Groundbreaking: U.S. To Help Ukraine Expand Strikes On Russian Refineries

The new measures will help Kiev better understand air defense deployments and map out attack routes.

The Donald Trump administration intends to help Ukraine's Armed Forces expand strikes on Russian energy facilities, which shut down at least five refineries in September alone and have left regions from the Far East to central Russia gripped by gasoline shortages.

According to NBC News, citing three officials familiar with the matter, the strikes on energy infrastructure will be targeted by intelligence assistance the U.S. plans to provide to Kiev.

The new measures should help Kiev better understand the locations of air defense assets and map out strike routes, which would improve the effectiveness of its existing drones and long-range missiles, people familiar with the discussions explained to Financial Times. It would be the first time intelligence assistance to Ukraine has been expanded since President Trump returned to the White House.

The expanded cooperation would also cover the use of any new long-range weapons the US might sell to NATO allies for delivery to Ukraine, the FT sources said. Trump has instructed military departments to prepare for intelligence sharing, the publication's interlocutors said. One of them, familiar with the ongoing discussions in the White House, called the developments a "dramatic shift in the attitude" of Trump's inner circle toward what is happening in Ukraine.

The president himself has toughened his rhetoric toward Russia over the past month, calling it a "paper tiger" and saying Ukraine can win the war and liberate all occupied territories. He also began demanding measures to halt oil and gas exports from Russia - though he has not yet taken such measures himself.

The fuel shortage, which engulfed Russia after the Ukrainian strikes on major oil refineries, forced the authorities to increase gasoline purchases in Belarus and even resort to imports from China and other Asian countries.

By the end of September, a record 38% of refinery capacity, capable of processing 338 thousand tons per day, was idle in the country. At the same time, 70% of the downtime was the result of UAV raids, which managed to hit more than 20 major refineries since the beginning of August. Four more refineries had to stop production last month, including Kinef refinery in the Leningrad Region, which is the second largest in Russia by capacity, and Rosneft's Ryazan refinery, which is among the top 5.

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