Despite severe fuel shortages across Russia, President Vladimir Putin appears unbothered by Ukraine\u2019s increasing attacks on his country\u2019s oil refineries.<\/p>\n
He has shrugged off the setback for one of the world\u2019s leading oil producing nations as \u201cnot critical,\u201d dismissed ceasefire proposals and insisted the war will continue until his goals are met.<\/p>\n
Putin has described the attacks on Russian energy as an effort by Ukraine to distract attention from its losses on the battlefield, although analysts say the advance of Russian forces has been stymied in recent months. The Russian leader appears to believe his government can keep the fuel crisis from eroding his authority and support for the war he launched more than four years ago.<\/p>\n
The Russian military unleashed a massive 11-hour barrage on the Ukrainian capital overnight into Thursday morning that killed at least 21 people. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Kyiv since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a deeper look at the latest exchange of strikes and Putin\u2019s refusal to halt the fighting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite severe fuel shortages across Russia, President Vladimir Putin appears unbothered by Ukraine\u2019s increasing attacks on his country\u2019s oil refineries. He has shrugged off the setback for one of the world\u2019s leading oil producing nations as \u201cnot critical,\u201d dismissed ceasefire proposals and insisted the war will continue until his goals are met. Putin has described …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99807,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99790\/revisions\/99807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}