Kuleba responded to the US urge to stop attacks on Russian gas and oil infrastructure. “You have to think in your own interests. If your partners say: 'We are giving you seven Patriot batteries tomorrow, but we ask you not to do this and this and this,' then there is something to talk about. But if you don’t have these batteries, there is no help package and at the same time you are asked not to do something, What should we talk about? Then everyone survives as best they can," the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs said.
@NOELreports Easy. Acquire Patriot air defense systems and continue to take out oil refineries.
@NOELreports I like kuleba he will be next PM
@NOELreports Correct. Well said.
@NOELreports Ucraine attacks on refineries will not raise gasoline price. There is more than enough extra capacities in the world. Russian crude oil production have not been hit. If price goes up its because other events, like MiddleEast.
@NOELreports The US can produce oil and run our own refineries. There's no reason to pretend we need ruzzia's around.
If you know the 'ol bidness, combined with the shift of Russia's EU customers to other sources, UKR's attacks on Russian oil and gas assets were working quite well. Surprised me, in fact. Always remember that a similar economic attack on a war-weakened Russia brought down the Soviet Union.
@NOELreports The hypocrisy of the USA in this situation is appalling.
@NOELreports I'm an American and I say to Ukraine this: Hit all those damned oil refineries you can! You have my full blessing. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦