Russia's Kremlin says Ukraine ignored US President Trump's request to cease attacking refineries in Russia

Russia's Kremlin says Ukraine ignored US President Trump's request to cease attacking refineries in Russia.

Refinery targeting has been one of the more durable themes of this conflict, and the market has developed a fairly established pattern for it: crude itself tends to react modestly since Russian export flows of crude are largely maintained, while the sharper transmission runs through refined products, diesel and gasoline cracks, and domestic Russian fuel balances. Headlines of this kind, where a strike campaign continues despite a ceasefire or de-escalation request, have historically mattered less for the single statement than for what they signal about the durability of any informal energy truce; prior episodes of partial energy ceasefires in this conflict have proven fragile and short-lived. The Kremlin publicly attributing the continuation to Kyiv also serves a diplomatic function, positioning Moscow as compliant with a US-brokered request, which is worth reading as negotiating theatre as much as operational fact. The operative distinction is between strikes that dent refining runs and those that hit export infrastructure directly, since the former tightens product markets while the latter hits crude supply. What follows is typically verification of actual damage and run rates rather than the rhetoric, and any US response to the request being ignored, which would indicate how much weight Washington places on the de-escalation channel.