‘We’re done’, says Zelenskyy as Kyiv hits Moscow refinery

Kyiv: Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was "done" supporting a ceasefire on energy targets announced by US President Donald Trump and ignored by Russia.

Since Trump's surprise announcement on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on energy, Kyiv had suspended attacks on Russian refineries, which Trump blames for raising diesel prices on global markets.

But in the days that followed, Russia rained down deadly missile and drone strikes, including on energy targets such as power stations, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.


In an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine's patience had run out.

"The block (on attacking refineries) is out. We're done," he told the newspaper.

Zelenskyy also made clear he believed that changes in the capability of the military version of SpaceX's Starlink receptors this week, which have curbed Ukraine's ability to use them to pilot its drones, were a policy decision.

"It was not a technical problem, it was the will," he said.

In a social media post overnight, SpaceX boss Elon Musk said usage of the military version of Starlink, known as Starshield, was ultimately up to Trump, as president of the United States.

"Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government.

Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS," Musk wrote.

Six Russian Aircraft damaged

Meanwhile, Ukraine's military said on Thursday it had damaged six Russian Su-34M military aircraft in an overnight strike on the Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia's Voronezh region.

In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine's military general staff said it had confirmed damage of varying degrees to all of the six aircraft.

Russia starts export of diesel

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian diesel had begun to reach global markets following an agreement with Trump.

"The diesel has started reaching global markets and is expected to have a positive effect on stabilising oil markets, although it will not be enough to fully stabilize them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. Reuters