Despite US warnings, Ukraine continues attacking Russian refineries, disrupting the export of oil products and increasing its price.

As Politico writes, a wave of strikes by Ukrainian drones on oil refineries in the Russian Federation have led the world’s largest oil country to begin to run out of fuel. As a result, diesel fuel prices in the aggressor state have risen sharply – by almost 10% over the last week. Gasoline prices also hit a six-month high, jumping more than 20% since the start of the year.

In addition, Russia reduced its exports to an almost historic low, shipping a little more than 712,000 tons of diesel fuel and gasoil last week.

Meanwhile, on the night of May 1, Ukrainian drones attacked the Ryazan Refinery, located 500 km from the Ukrainian border, deep inside Russia. Business Insider noted that, with these attacks, Ukraine risks alienating its most powerful ally, the US. At the same time, the current US aid will not enable Ukraine to win the war. Therefore, Ukraine is looking for ways to weaken Russia, which includes strikes on its energy infrastructure.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia emphasized that Ukraine received weapons from some of its partners, allowing it to strike Russian territory.