MenuOn the first of this month, Ukrainian drones struck three oil refineries in Russia’s Bashkortostan region near the city of Ufa, around 1,600 kilometers from the border. A day later, Rosneft’s Saratov refinery was hit, a plant that processed 5.8 million tons of oil in 2024. These two incidents are part of a long list of damaging attacks on energy infrastructure by Ukraine this summer. These strikes are landing even as the Kremlin insists there are “no immediate prospects for resuming the negotiation process” and resists Ukraine’s calls for a ceasefire while maintaining that Russia remains open to negotiations in principle.
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