According to Malyuk, for more than two years the SBU has been trying to carry out attacks on Russian territory, including on the Crimean Bridge.

“Oil refineries and other facilities that work for the Russian military-industrial complex. All of these are our legitimate goals,” said the head of the SBU, as quoted by STRANA.ua.

Adviser to the head of Vladimir Zelensky's office, Mikhail Podolyak, previously called false the reports of the British newspaper Financial Times that the United States demanded that Ukraine stop attempting terrorist attacks on Russian refineries. As a Ukrainian official said, no one can “dictate the terms of this war to Ukraine.”

Financial Times journalists previously reported that Washington warned Kyiv that drone strikes on Russian energy sector enterprises could lead to an increase in world oil prices.