The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday, September 7, informed about the series of night attacks on the key elements of Putin's war machine; Russian fuel infrastructure as well as military and logistics facilities used to supply troops.
Rocket, artillery and drone units of the Ukrainian army attacked the Ilish oil refinery in the Krasnodar country. The fragments of the unmanned aircraft caused a vast fire. The Ilska Oil Refinery is one of the largest in the southern federal district of Russia. Provides crude oil, which provides, among others Russian army.
And this is just the beginning of the latest Ukrainian action.
Ukrainian drones have also attacked the Naftal Przyjaźń pipeline, specifically the “8-N” available station in the Russian Bryan region. This station is part of the key route transporting oil products from Belarus, including the refinery in Mozyrz and Nowopolack, to Russia. Its annual bandwidth is about 10.5 million tons of fuel. This is not the first attack of this type recently.
Robert Browdi “Madziar”, commander of the forces of Ukraine's unmanned systems, stated that the attack was carried out by units subordinate to him together with the Ukrainian rocket and artillery forces.
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Ukraine has repeatedly attacked the Russian Oil Pipeline Friendship, which transports oil to Slovakia and Hungary. In 2022, the EU introduced a ban on the import of most Russian oil, but excluded the Friendship pipeline from it to give Central European countries time without access to the sea time for diversification of supply sources.
The Ukrainian armed forces also attacked the locations of Russian military staff and supply warehouses in the Kurski region. The leadership of the army announced that the impacts are aimed at “weakening the offensive potential of the Russian troops” and disruption of fuel and ammunition supply.
“Defensive forces continue to weaken Russia's offensive abilities and forcing the Russian Federation to end armed aggression against Ukraine,” said the Ukrainians in the report.
“Moscow does not show any signs of softening the invasion”
On the same day, Russia attacked a vast government complex for the first time in the center of Kiev. The reporter of the “Kyiv Post” website, living in the city center, saw flames bursting from the roof. Thick smoke rose above the capital of Ukraine. Pictures of this event circulated the whole world.
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The burning government building in the center of Kiev, September 7, 2025.
Rescue services have announced that drone strikes also damaged several skyscrapers in Kiev. President Wołodymyr Zelanski said that this attack would only extend the war.
Moscow, currently in the fourth year of a full -glass invasion, does not show any signs of striving to conclude a truce. The Kremlin still presses the hard conditions of the end of the war despite the lasting months of US President Donald Trump's efforts, who declares his desire to organize a three -sided peace peak (with the participation of the presidents of Zelanski and Putin).
As the editor of the opinion department Tobias Blanken writes in the commentary for “Die Welt”, “photos of the burning government building in Kiev from a Russian point of view were a successful show of strength.”
According to Blanken, “Russian autocrat behaves as if he lived like in ancient times. He is guided by the principle formulated by the ancient Greek strategist of Tukidides, that the law can only apply between equal. In the case of imbalances, stronger forces does what he can, and the weaker tolerates what he must.”
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