{"id":24042,"date":"2026-10-15T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/zelensky-russia-energy-strikes-patriot-missiles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:30:17","slug":"zelensky-russia-energy-strikes-patriot-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/zelensky-russia-energy-strikes-patriot-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Ties Halt to Russian Energy Strikes to More Patriot Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv will not stop strikes on Russian oil refineries and other energy facilities unless it receives more Patriot missiles.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Financial Times, Zelensky said Ukraine&#8217;s attacks would resume after Russia&#8217;s continued strikes on the country&#8217;s energy infrastructure. He added that the decision would be made despite the energy ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president criticised Trump&#8217;s position on the war and expressed frustration over not receiving missile warnings and over Washington&#8217;s blocking of Kyiv&#8217;s access to intelligence. Describing Ukraine&#8217;s situation, he said: &#8220;We are done.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky says Ukraine will keep striking Russian energy targets unless it receives more Patriot missiles, despite Trump&#8217;s ceasefire announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}