Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has said that oil refineries in Russia are legitimate targets for the Ukrainian military. She added that in this case, Ukraine is acting in accordance with NATO standards.
Source: Stefanishyna at the Kyiv Security Forum
Details: Stefanishyna was asked how the Ukrainian side reacted to the article about the US supposedly calling on Ukraine to stop strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Quote: “The Ukrainian side responded, I think, by mentioning that it was achieving its goals and carrying out very successful operations on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Conversely, there have also been statements from other officials that these are absolutely legitimate targets from a military point of view. We understand the concerns of our American partners. At the same time, we have to make the most of the capabilities, resources and methods that we have.
I would like to remind my colleagues who make such statements that in February 2022, I spoke to NATO headquarters to ask them to turn to the UN, as they are able to enact a ‘no-fly zone’ over Ukraine.
They said: ‘Olha, you don’t understand NATO methods’. These NATO methods firstly entail the destruction of infrastructure in [the aggressor country] that makes it possible to bomb [the attacked country’s] cities, such as factories that produce missiles. We are therefore acting in accordance with NATO best practices.”
Details: Commenting on the Russian attack on 22 March, Stefanishyna said she expects her partners to provide Ukraine with weapons: “Outrage and condolences are one thing, but we expect weapons first and foremost.”
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The US is the right one to complain. I just say ‘Iraq’…
Yeah. Nothing hypocritical about this. Everyone knows that destroying oil fields is the quickest way to win a war. Without oil, petrol or diesel, you are going nowhere fast. The US are sitting on 360 million barrels of oil in the strategic reserve, so why the fuck are they complaining? They also have the ability to pump out more if needed.
Saddam torched those wells, not the US. Those Kuwaiti wells.
The impossible balance, neither Russia nor Ukraine must lose, that some in the West would still like to maintain is in the process of breaking on the walls of reality. Whether we like it or not, the West is totally involved in this war and there is no longer any question of hesitating in the total support that we must provide to our Ukrainian friends. There should no longer be any taboo on conventional military solutions to help Ukraine defend itself with dignity against the Kremlin terrorists.
We have to face reality, it will be darkness or light, it will be them or us.
Killing oil refineries is a good move. If they can reach them, they should go after those refineries fed by the Siberian fields. If that oil has no where to go, then they will be forced to shut the wells down, and the wells will be destroyed by the permafrost. It took nearly 30 years. to recover from the last time they had to do that as they had to redrill every well. Once those are off line, then go after the others. The neo-Soviets won’t have the oil their war machine needs and it will weaken them commensurately.