{"id":76616,"date":"2026-08-13T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/76616\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:00:04","slug":"russia-fuel-crisis-why-ukraines-refinery-strikes-hit-where-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/76616\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fuel crisis: Why Ukraine\u2019s refinery strikes hit where it hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Russia fuel crisis: Why Ukraine\u2019s refinery strikes hit where it hurts\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjSYORZJA7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRussia fuel crisis: Why Ukraine\u2019s refinery strikes hit where it hurts<br \/>\n<br \/>\nUkraine has intensified its attacks on Russian oil refineries, striking targets increasingly deep inside the country and forcing some facilities to cut production or shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of refineries have been hit, disrupting Russia&#8217;s ability to produce petrol and diesel. But Moscow continues to export vast quantities of crude oil, much of it carried by its so-called shadow fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News business and economics correspondent Paul Kelso examines Ukraine&#8217;s escalating refinery campaign, the impact on Russia&#8217;s fuel supplies and whether it can ultimately put pressure on the revenues helping fund Putin&#8217;s war.<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #russia #ukraine #world <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia fuel crisis: Why Ukraine\u2019s refinery strikes hit where it hurts Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[473,233,1526,19,13493,1525,910,63061,17,296,590,79,49,178,1829],"class_list":["post-76616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-analysis","tag-attacks","tag-diesel","tag-oil","tag-paul-kelso","tag-petrol","tag-putin","tag-refinery-attacks","tag-russia","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-news-live","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-world","tag-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117089049291248135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}