{"id":1228302,"date":"2025-10-05T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1228302"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:48:34","slug":"russians-unable-to-stop-ukrainian-strikes-on-energy-facilities-gen-hodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russians-unable-to-stop-ukrainian-strikes-on-energy-facilities-gen-hodges\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians Unable to Stop Ukrainian Strikes on Energy Facilities \u2013 Gen. Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Russians are unable to halt Ukrainian strikes on their energy facilities, and this could become an effective lever to end the war, especially if the West provides Ukraine with additional long-range capabilities and restricts the operations of Russia\u2019s shadow fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, shared this opinion on his X account, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-ato\/4042752-rosiani-ne-v-zmozi-zupiniti-udari-ukrainskih-sil-po-svoih-energoobektah-general-godzes.html\">Ukrinform reports.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Russians don\u2019t seem able to stop it,\u201d the former American commander noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this context, he emphasized the need for Western countries to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSupporting Ukraine\u2019s efforts to disrupt Russian oil exports \u2014 including by providing long-range precision strike capabilities and shutting down the shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea \u2014 will help bring this war to a successful conclusion,\u201d Hodges stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by Ukrinform, last week SBU Special Operations Center \u201cA\u201d drones twice reached Bashkortostan and struck <em>Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, overnight Wednesday a fire broke out at the Novoyaroslavl oil refinery (<em>Slavneft-YANOS<\/em>) in Yaroslavl, Russia. Although Moscow denies it was the result of Ukrainian strikes, the shutdown of <em>Slavneft-YANOS<\/em> \u2014 one of Russia\u2019s top five refineries by capacity \u2014 represents a serious blow to the Russian energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/nato-countries-must-do-more-for-ukraine-s-victory-austin\/\">NATO countries must do more for Ukraine\u2019s victory \u2013 Austin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are unable to halt Ukrainian strikes on their energy facilities, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1228303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36415],"tags":[76,78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1228302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russians Unable to Stop Ukrainian Strikes on Energy Facilities \u2013 Gen. 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