{"id":493589,"date":"2025-10-12T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:46:13","slug":"zelenskyy-urges-continued-pressure-on-russia-amid-strikes-on-ukraine-energy-plants-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493589\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy urges continued pressure on Russia amid strikes on Ukraine energy plants \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s defense ministry confirmed on Sunday that Moscow\u2019s forces had struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities that the Kremlin considers part of the Ukrainian military complex, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2025\/10\/12\/russia-struck-ukrainian-energy-infrastructure-downed-72-drones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the RIA news agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kyiv responded to Russian attacks by striking Russia\u2019s Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa, located 1,300 kilometers east of Moscow, a person in Ukraine\u2019s SBU security service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2618523\/world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Reuters<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f9f42c10-3a30-4ee1-aff7-3368dd831c8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that U.S. intelligence has for months been helping Ukraine strike energy facilities in Russian territory, citing Ukrainian and U.S. officials. This assistance has enabled Ukraine to target Russia\u2019s critical energy infrastructure, driving up energy prices and forcing Russia to reduce its diesel exports, according to the FT report.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, efforts are under way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2025\/10\/12\/latest-news-bulletin-october-12th-2025-morning\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2025\/10\/12\/latest-news-bulletin-october-12th-2025-morning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to restore power in Kyiv<\/a>, where 800,000 residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/12\/ukraine-war-briefing-latest-refinery-strike-shows-no-safe-places-in-russias-deep-rear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> regained access to electricity on Saturday following Russia\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s defense ministry confirmed on Sunday that Moscow\u2019s forces had struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities that the Kremlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2594,473,6642,1312,35,25799,6643,7058,1214,2817,660,2452,839,2597,54490,2661,332,2663,811,1199,182,479,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-493589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-diesel","11":"tag-electricity","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-energy-infrastructure","14":"tag-energy-prices","15":"tag-european-defense","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-kremlin","19":"tag-media","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","23":"tag-oil","24":"tag-russia","25":"tag-sanctions","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-services","28":"tag-social-media","29":"tag-tariffs","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-vladimir-putin","33":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","34":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115361269917786493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}