🔺After a two-week pause, Ukraine once again targeted a Russian refinery

▪Based on images released, the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara province, Russia, caught fire on the early morning of Friday, 8 Aban, after a drone attack. This attack is the first on Russian refining facilities since the pause that began in mid-Mehr.

▪The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday, 7 Aban, that the Ukrainian army halted attacks on Russian refineries under pressure from the Trump administration, and that two military officials told the newspaper that units with long-range capabilities in mid-Mehr were instructed to complete ongoing missions and not launch a new attack.

▪Ukraine never announced the pause officially, and its most recent recorded attack on Russian oil infrastructure was on 28 Mehr on a pumping station in Tambov province.

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