
Over the past year, Kyiv has escalated a deliberate, sustained campaign of deep‑strike attacks targeting Russia’s petroleum infrastructure: including refineries, export terminals, pipelines, and petrochemical installations. The strategy is not oriented toward instantaneous “knockout” blows, but rather toward cumulative disruption: raising maintenance burdens, constraining fuel availability, and forcing Moscow to redirect resources among its military, domestic, and export needs.

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