Drone attack paralyzes Moscow airports, 'betrayed' Zelensky goes rogue; Hits Russian refinery

Trump's energy ceasefire has been reduced to ashes. It has been blown apart as the attacks continue and the tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to shoot up. In the latest, Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery after President Zelensky declared that Kiev was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier. Let's just tell you a bit more first about the latest attack before we get to the bigger picture here. Ukraine's latest target was reportedly a refinery in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, which is reportedly owned by the state oil major, Rosneft. The regional governor reportedly said that a major Ukrainian drone attack had caused a fire at the refinery. Russia has publicly acknowledged a Ukrainian drone strike on a major oil refinery and broadcast images on state media. Meanwhile, operations at four Moscow airports were reportedly impacted because of a drone attack. Remember, just to summarize this for you and get you the context, after Trump's announcement on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on energy sites, Kiev suspended attacks on Russian refineries, which, remember, Trump blames for raising diesel prices as far as the global markets are concerned. Now, Russia has rained down missile and drone strikes, including on energy targets like power stations, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Ukraine has frequently struck Russian oil refineries in attacks that officials typically describe as hits on industrial enterprises. So that's what's been happening on the ground. Ukraine says meanwhile it paused such attacks for three days but resumed them because it says Russia was continuing to pound its thermal power plants according to it and other energy infrastructure. Remember Trump and the Russian president announced last week a deal on Russian diesel exports to US and global markets in order to bring down the prices. That's the background. But what really happened? In an interview with Financial Times, Zelenskyy reportedly said Ukraine's patience had run out. Not just that, Zelenskyy also criticized what he saw as Trump's willingness to strike deals with Russia. That's what he called it. Let's just zoom out here and look at the bigger picture. By effectively walking away from Trump's demand that Ukraine halt attacks on Russian refineries and openly criticizing the U.S. leader the Ukrainian leader risks deepening that rift between Kiev and Washington since Russia's February in 2022 invasion of Ukraine that's the bigger picture Trump remember earlier said reportedly that such attacks by Kiev quote unquote better stop this also is a major setback for Donald Trump himself remember this coming just ahead of the midterm elections there he's also under mounting pressure to lower the fuel prices with the Republicans also facing that major test as far as those polls are concerned prices for diesel meanwhile reached record highs since he launched that war against Iran in February though Trump says it is the Ukraine attacks on russian refineries that are driving up global prices, he claims, so his energy ceasefire has clearly crumbled. It was short-lived and a lot depends on what happens here onwards.