Ukraine and Russia’s intensifying energy war brings gas shortages and economic pain
Almost 900 miles from Ukraine's borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday.
The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country's security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.
It was just the latest episode in an intensifying energy war between Ukraine and Russia.
Video from the area around the Ufa refinery in Bashkortostan, a Russian region in the southern Ural Mountains, showed a column of dark smoke rising from the plant following the attack.
The refinery is one of the country's largest.
This was at least the fourth Ukrainian attack on Russian oil facilities in the last week, continuing a campaign that accelerated over the summer and has led to gasoline sho...