#energy-infrastructure-strikes

#energy-infrastructure-strikes

Russia still pursues its original maximalist demands, including territorial claims to control Ukraine's eastern regions, and continues to oppose the prospect of Ukraine ever joining Nato or ever hosting western troops as part of security guarantees. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address yesterday that reliable security guarantees are the only real foundation for peace, as he warned that Russia could test it any peace settlement through strikes or hybrid operations of some kind.

More than three and a half years into the Russia-Ukraine War, Russia is pummeling Ukrainian cities from the air with ever more force, while retaining an advantage on the battlefield in the east - though it is far from achieving a significant breakthrough. Ukraine has found success striking Russian oil refineries deep in the country and may receive longer-range missiles from the Trump administration, which has been more focused on negotiating peace in Gaza after a summit with Putin in Alaska failed to yield results.