Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis compared Ukraine's attacks on Russia's oil depots to US bombing of Nazi fuel depots in World War II. Former US General Ben Hodges, for example, recommended that Ukraine not follow US demands to stop the attack.
“Ukraine should ignore it. [Refineries] are legitimate targets,” Hodges said. Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna also commented on the topic, but with more detailed arguments. What Ukraine is doing is just Self-defense, he said, while Russia carries out massive daily airstrikes and continues to occupy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. It is not worth “dramatizing the attacks on Russian refineries while Russia has systematically destroyed Ukraine's energy infrastructure,’ Tshakna wrote on Platform X on Thursday. For Ukraine, the drone attacks are not just about reducing fuel supplies to the front and causing logistical problems. The Kremlin boss is also financing his war through sales of oil and gas, which make up 40 percent of Russian state revenue.