Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to abandon Kyiv and other cities, but will not target civilians, President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Ukraine’s intelligence services has obtained documents showing that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had issued a “new doctrine” of military attacks on a much broader range of civilian targets ahead of this winter, Zelenskiy said.

“We saw documents ‌and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals,” Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview. “To pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities: this is the goal of the operation.”

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    Good. But hit Moscow while you’re at it. They need to feel unsafe. A good knock to Putin’s popularity.

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    Can we just get one single rocket to take out Putin and call it a day? Like surely such an action is more than justified by now.

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    19 days ago

    Oil is ~$90/bbl and this guy is destroying refineries with my money.

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      Your money?

      You gotta work to pay taxes, and most of you tankie shits, sit in your mom’s basement hoping the day comes that you become the leader of your authoritarian regime… it’s why you defend ruzzia and the ccp like good little lapdogs.

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        19 days ago

        We have three children in the house and my partner just lost her job.

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          19 days ago

          I do hope that you find relief soon, direct your anger at your government who has enabled exploitation. Not at the government trying to defend against fascist nationalist expansion

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            19 days ago

            Maybe I am being misundestood, I’m not defending VP’s war on UA. What I am saying is that I cannot afford to pay for it because the rent is due and the children are hungry.

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              19 days ago

              You are! Because you attacked the right of Ukraine to raise the funds needed to strike the aggressor: russia. Besides the US gives very little aid anyway. If you are not European then you have zero right to criticize where their aid goes.

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                19 days ago

                IMO UA can do whatever it wants and raise funds however it pleases, doesn’t matter me. Since the aid is “very little aid anyway,” I rather feed our hungry, house our poor, and educate our youth.

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                  19 days ago

                  Or. Hear me out. Properly support Ukraine so that they can finally push putler back, so that the food Ukraine produces can finally be available for everyone. Also your government should be able to do both, by closing exploitative loopholes.

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          The fuck does that have to do with Ukraine being invaded by ruzzia? Ruzzia never supplied the US with Diesel, and trump is the cause for the prices rising. Not Ukraine blowing up refineries in ruzzia, they’ve been doing that long before the orange pedophile decided to attack Iran.

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      Maybe you should try listening to scientists and move away from oil and natural gas. Use your boot straps and produce your own energy instead of importing it in. The cost today appears to reflect the actual damage those barrels are doing and the quality of life you had was all an illusion based on the exploitation of resources you didn’t actually control.