{"id":1378300,"date":"2026-04-05T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/western-partners-asked-ukraine-not-to-attack-russian-refineries-due-to-energy-crisis-budanov\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:18:47","slug":"western-partners-asked-ukraine-not-to-attack-russian-refineries-due-to-energy-crisis-budanov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/western-partners-asked-ukraine-not-to-attack-russian-refineries-due-to-energy-crisis-budanov\/","title":{"rendered":"Western partners asked Ukraine not to attack Russian refineries due to energy crisis \u2013 Budanov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, said that some international partners had asked Ukraine to refrain from striking Russian oil refineries. The reason for this was the global increase in energy prices against the backdrop of the war in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-04\/ukraine-expects-top-us-envoys-in-kyiv-this-month-to-reboot-talks?srnd=phx-politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine received relevant signals from partners, but he did not disclose the details of such appeals.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I will answer this diplomatically: we are receiving some signals about this,&#8221; said Kirill Budanov.<\/p>\n<p> He noted that these appeals are related to the rise in oil and fuel prices caused by the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the head of the GUR expressed expectations regarding the development of the situation in the region.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I am optimistic that the war in the Middle East will end relatively soon,&#8221; said Kirill Budanov.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, on the night of April 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/npz-port-ta-sklad-aviatsii-syly-oboronyty-atakuvaly-nyzku-vazhlyvykh-viyskovykh-ob-iektiv-rf\/\">, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of facilities of the Russian aggressor, in particular an oil refinery<\/a> , a port, and an aircraft equipment warehouse. As a result of the attacks, fires were recorded at some facilities, the extent of the damage is being clarified.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that the Ukrainian military struck important Russian military targets over two days \u2013 April 1 and 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-vdaryly-po-npz-v-ufi-ta-polihonu-okupantiv-detali-vid-henshtabu\/\">The strikes hit an oil refinery deep in the Russian rear<\/a> , a training ground, and ammunition depots.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, said that some international partners had asked Ukraine to refrain from striking Russian oil refineries. The reason for this was the global increase in energy prices against the backdrop of the war in the Middle East. This is reported by Bloomberg . According to Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1204345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1378300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}