To date Ukraine has carried out nearly 160 strikes on Russian oil facilities in 2025—sapping the energy revenues Moscow uses to fund its aggression—Ukraine’s security chief said Friday, October 31st.
Ukraine has struck Russian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war but has intensified its attacks in recent months. The strikes have caused petrol prices in Russia to spike and prompted the Russian government to introduce a total ban on fuel exports.
The head of Ukraine’s SBU security service, Vasyl Malyuk, said in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that
since the beginning of the year, there have been almost 160 successful strikes on oil extraction and oil refining facilities. Among them are six refineries, two oil terminals, three oil depots, and nine oil pumping stations.
Malyuk also claimed that Ukraine had destroyed an Oreshnik missile system in southern Russia over a year ago, before Moscow had deployed the experimental hypersonic weapon.
