{"id":28464,"date":"2026-08-14T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28464\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:53:07","slug":"ukraine-responds-to-russias-winter-drone-threats-warns-of-strikes-on-fuel-infrastructure-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28464\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Responds to Russia\u2019s Winter Drone Threats, Warns of Strikes on Fuel Infrastructure | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">Moscow\u2019s winter warning has drawn an unusually direct response from Kyiv, hinting that Russian fuel facilities could become the next battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defense responded to Russian threats to step up drone attacks on Ukrainian territory this winter. In a post on the ministry\u2019s Facebook page, it stressed that Ukraine is prepared to strike Russia\u2019s fuel infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Winter will be hot.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defense on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defense also used the phrase: \u201cIn the cold, birds fly to burning lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Armed Forces of Ukraine and Fire Point respond to Russia\u2019s threats<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces Strategic Communications Directorate issued a separate response to Russia\u2019s statements on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll warm ourselves by the fire of Russian oil refineries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces Strategic Communications Directorate on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Fire Point also responded to Russian statements regarding possible winter strikes.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk about winter after autumn.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Fire Point<\/p>\n<p>What Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, August 14, Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense published a Telegram post about Shahed-type attack drones and stated: \u201cYou will be \u2018frozen\u2019 in winter.\u201d The Ukrainian side responded that Russia\u2019s attempts to intimidate the country would not go unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow\u2019s winter warning has drawn an unusually direct response from Kyiv, hinting that Russian fuel facilities could become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2088,82,10161,10162,8194,10163],"class_list":["post-28464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fire-point","tag-news","tag-russian-fuel-infrastructure","tag-ukraine-russia-drone-threats","tag-ukrainian-defense-ministry","tag-winter-attacks-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}