# Ukraine Targets Russian Refineries

> Ukraine plans to strike Russian oil refineries after Moscow's new air strike doctrine.
- Title: Ukraine Targets Russian Refineries · The Straits Times
- Summary: Ukraine plans to strike Russian oil refineries after Moscow's new air strike doctrine. Ukraine will hit Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new…
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- Source: The Straits Times — https://straitstimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-will-hit-russian-refineries-in-response-to-moscows-new-doctrine-of-airstrikes
- Published: 2026-10-03T16:08:40+00:00
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- Topics: ukraine, russian refineries, air strikes, civilian infrastructure, evacuations, donbas, zeleny, news, world
## Ukraine's Response to New Doctrine
Ukraine will intensify attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow’s new doctrine targeting civilian infrastructure to force evacuations, but will avoid hitting civilian objects.

> We saw documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure... logistics... roads, schools, hospitals, to pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities
## Zelensky on Putin's Strategy
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin’s new doctrine aims to force people to abandon cities by targeting infrastructure, driven by his military losing ground in key front-line regions.

> Driving the shift in policy, zelensky said, was putin’s desire to appear strong at a time when his military was losing ground in a key front-line region and sustaining higher levels of casualties.
## Russian Drone Strikes on Kyiv
Russian drones and missiles have targeted kyiv’s energy and infrastructure, including bridges across the dnieper river, for the first time this week.

> For the first time, russia has targeted the bridges across the dnieper river connecting east and west kyiv.
## Donbas Counteroffensive
Ukrainian forces have recaptured around 140 sq km in donbas amid ongoing counteroffensive, code-named 'vivaldi'.

> Zelensky said an ongoing ukrainian counteroffensive, code-named 'vivaldi', had recaptured around 140 sq km of ukraine’s eastern donbas region
## Zelensky on Peace Talks
Zelensky urged u.s. not to normalize relations with russia before ensuring peace, warning that peace is more important than economic ties.

> It’s not fair just to normalize, said zelensky, dressed in his trademark black t-shirt and military-style jacket. Any resumption of economic and diplomatic ties with the west had to be in return for peace, he said.
## Ukraine's New Defenses
Ukraine is developing five new interceptor drones to counter russian jet-powered drones, with tests showing a 30% success rate.

> Last week, zelensky said ukraine was developing five models of new interceptor drones capable of downing the jet shaheds. Fresh from a meeting with his defence chiefs, he said tests on two of those models showed a modest success rate of around 30%.
## FP-7 Ballistic Missile
Ukraine announced first combat use of domestically made ballistic missile fp-7 with a range of 250km.

> Ukraine announced the first combat use this week of its own domestically made ballistic missile, the fp-7, which has a range of around 250km.
## FP-9 Development
Zelensky pressured fire point to finish longer-range fp-9 missile capable of hitting moscow by autumn 2027.

> Zelensky said he had called the manufacturer fire point to pressure executives to finish quickly a longer-range model, the fp-9, which the company has said could hit moscow.
## European Funding
Ukraine secured funding from europe to cover a us$27 billion defense budget shortfall through 2027 using eu loan credits.

> Ukrainian officials had worked on plans with european partners to plug a us$27 billion (s$34.5 billion) hole in kyiv’s defense budget in 2026.
## Russia's Drone Threat
Russia has launched dozens of fast jet-powered shahed drones daily, forcing ukraine to rely on f-16s and migs to down 60% of them.

> Zelensky said ukraine had been forced to rely heavily on its fighter aircraft, f-16s and migs, to down around 60% of the russian jet-powered drones, but supplies of 20mm ammunition for the planes were running low.
## Key takeaway

Ukraine will hit Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new doctrine targeting civilian infrastructure to force evacuations without targeting civilians.