Ukraine to hit Russian refineries in response to Moscow's 'new doctrine' of airstrikes, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine will intensify strikes on Russian oil refineries in response to what Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as Moscow’s new doctrine of airstrikes on civilian targets, he said in Kyiv. He said Ukraine would not strike civilians and would respond only against infrastructure that finances Russia’s war. Zelenskyy also said a counteroffensive in Donbas has recaptured about 140 square kilometers and is still ongoing.

Zelenskyy said Ukrainian intelligence obtained documents indicating Vladimir Putin had authorized attacks on infrastructure, logistics, roads, schools, hospitals and other civilian targets ahead of winter.

He said Russia’s shift was driven by Putin’s desire to appear strong while his military was losing ground and taking higher casualties in a key frontline region.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive, code-named Vivaldi, has recaptured around 140 square kilometers of eastern Donbas, according to Zelenskyy.

Ukraine said its own domestically made ballistic missile, the FP-7, was used in combat for the first time this week, and Zelenskyy pressed Fire Point to finish the longer-range FP-9.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine had unlocked funding in Brussels to order drones needed into early 2027 and said the defense-budget gap this year was about 27 billion euros.

Published Oct 4, 2026 9:08 am KST

Updated Oct 4, 2026 4:59 pm KST

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives opening remarks via video connection during the Helsinki Security Forum 2026 in Helsinki, Finland, Friday. EPA-Yonhap

KYIV — Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to abandon Kyiv and other cities, but will not target civilians, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine's intelligence services has obtained documents showing that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had issued a "new doctrine" of military attacks on a much broader range of civilian targets ahead of this winter, Zelenskyy said.

"We saw documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals," Zelenskyy told Reuters in an interview. "To pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities: this is the goal of the operation."

Driving the shift in policy, Zelenskyy said, was Putin's desire to appear strong at a time when his military was losing ground in a key frontline region and sustaining higher levels of casualties.

The Kremlin was not available to comment on Saturday. But in a statement urging foreign nationals to leave Kyiv, the Russian foreign ministry said Moscow would continue to systematically hit targets in what it said were retaliatory strikes for Ukrainian attacks on Russia in recent months.

Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilians.

Counteroffensive in Donbas

Zelenskyy said a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, code-named "Vivaldi", had recaptured around 140 square kilometers (54 square miles) of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and was still ongoing. Russia has said it must control Donbas in its entirety as a condition for any peace deal.

In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has sought to revive talks to end the four-year-old conflict — Europe's bloodiest since World War II.

The U.S. leader last month urged Ukraine to refrain from hitting Russian oil installations, saying that was sending global diesel prices surging.

But Zelenskyy, speaking as air raid sirens blared outside the gilded halls of the presidential offices, said he had received no indications from Russia that Putin was interested in peace talks, or discussing a ceasefire on energy infrastructure.

Over the past week, the Ukrainian capital has come under persistent attack by Russian drones and missiles targeting energy and telecoms assets, road and rail infrastructure. For the first time, Russia has targeted the bridges across the Dnipro river connecting east and west Kyiv.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine would react to the change in tactics by Moscow, but would not target civilian infrastructure indiscriminately.

"We have to respond in any way (we can). With their attacks on our energy, we have to respond on their energy. First of all, oil refiners etc: what gives money to them for this war," Zelenskyy said in English. "But we will not respond, of course, just like them, on any civilian objects."

After the Trump administration invited Putin to attend a G20 summit in Miami in December and discussed business deals with Russian envoys, Zelenskyy urged Washington not to normalize relations with Russia before ensuring a return to peace.

Zelenskyy said he would be happy to meet Putin for peace talks at the G20, but he warned the U.S. not to believe in "illusions" that Russia would simply end hostilities if it gained control of Donbas.

"It's not fair just to normalize," said Zelenskyy, dressed in his trademark black T-shirt and military-style jacket. Any resumption of economic and diplomatic ties with the West had to be in return for Russia ending hostilities, he said: "Because peace is more important than any kind of economy."

While the U.S. has proposed a resumption of trilateral talks in the coming weeks in the UAE, Zelenskyy noted that an exact date and location for the technical-level conversations had still not been set.

Ukrainian officials warn that Russia has stockpiled hundreds of ballistic missiles ahead of an expected winter onslaught against electricity and water infrastructure. Last winter, the worst of the war, Russian strikes left swathes of the country without electricity and heating for days at a time.

Since the summer, Moscow has also begun launching dozens of fast and relatively cheap jet-powered Shahed drones a day at Ukraine, whose air defense teams have struggled to cope because their interceptor drones were too slow to catch them.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine had been forced to rely heavily on its fighter aircraft — F-16s and MiGs — to down around 60 percent of the Russian jet-powered drones, but supplies of 20 mm ammunition for the planes were running low.

Kyiv was urgently working on other solutions — including boosting its electronic jamming capabilities, he said. In the second half of October, it would receive the first shipment of small, cheap air defense missiles capable of hitting the new Shaheds.

Last week, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was developing five models of new interceptor drones capable of downing the jet Shaheds. Fresh from a meeting with his defense chiefs, he said tests on two of those models showed a modest success rate of around 30 percent.

"We'll have to scale it," he said. "I hope that with all these things, with all these elements, we'll find a way."

Ukraine announced the first combat use this week of its own domestically made ballistic missile, the FP-7, which has a range of around 250 kilometers (155 miles).

Zelenskyy said he had called the manufacturer Fire Point to pressure executives to finish a longer-range model, the FP-9, which the company has said could hit Moscow.

"I said to them, where is my FP-9?" said Zelenskyy, with a grin. "We need the FP-9. And the FP-9 will be (ready) this autumn, I'm sure."

Zelenskyy said a recent spate of Russian drone incursions and hybrid attacks in Europe were an effort to intimidate European populations and to undermine support for Ukraine.

Some European leaders were starting to understand this, he said, and toughen their position.

Russia says such accusations are baseless and the result of anti-Russian hysteria.

After talks with European officials in Brussels this week, Ukraine had unlocked funding to order the drones that it needs to keep fighting at the start of 2027, Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian officials had worked on plans with European partners to plug a $27 billion hole in Kyiv's defense budget this year.

The plans involve a combination of the reallocation of Ukraine's own budget resources, bilateral assistance and using "money credits" from next year's portion of a 90 billion euro EU loan, Zelenskyy said.

"We will close this (gap). I think this is absolutely a big success for our country," he said.

乌克兰总统泽连斯基在基辅表示，乌克兰将加大对俄罗斯炼油厂的打击力度，以回应莫斯科所谓的针对平民目标的空袭新策略。泽连斯基强调，乌克兰不会袭击平民，只会打击为俄罗斯战争提供资金的基础设施。他还表示，顿巴斯地区的反攻已收复约140平方公里土地，目前仍在进行中。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰情报部门获得了文件，表明弗拉基米尔·普京已授权在冬季来临前袭击基础设施、后勤设施、道路、学校、医院和其他民用目标。

他表示，俄罗斯的这一转变是普京希望在军队节节败退、在关键前线地区伤亡惨重的情况下，展现强硬姿态所致。

据泽连斯基称，乌克兰代号为“维瓦尔第”的反攻已经夺回了顿巴斯东部约 140 平方公里的土地。

乌克兰表示，其国产弹道导弹 FP-7 本周首次投入实战，泽连斯基敦促火力点公司完成射程更远的 FP-9 导弹的研制。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰已在布鲁塞尔获得资金，可以订购到 2027 年初所需的无人机，并表示今年的国防预算缺口约为 270 亿欧元。

发布于2026年10月4日上午9:08（韩国标准时间）

更新于2026年10月4日下午4:59（韩国标准时间）

乌克兰总统泽连斯基周五在芬兰赫尔辛基通过视频连线在2026年赫尔辛基安全论坛上致开幕词。图片来源：EPA-Yonhap

基辅——乌克兰总统泽连斯基表示，乌克兰将加倍攻击俄罗斯炼油厂，以回应莫斯科旨在迫使人们放弃基辅和其他城市的空袭新政策，但不会以平民为目标。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰情报部门已获得文件，显示俄罗斯领导人弗拉基米尔·普京在今年冬季之前发布了一项“新理论”，即对更广泛的平民目标发动军事袭击。

泽连斯基在接受路透社采访时表示：“我们看到了相关文件，我们知道这些文件允许他们攻击基础设施、后勤保障，尤其是在城市、乡村等任何地方，包括道路、学校和医院。迫使人们离开首都和其他城市：这就是这次行动的目的。”

泽连斯基表示，推动政策转变的是普京希望在军队在关键前线地区节节败退、伤亡人数不断攀升之际，展现出强硬姿态。

克里姆林宫周六未对此事发表评论。但俄罗斯外交部在一份敦促外国公民离开基辅的声明中表示，莫斯科将继续系统性地打击目标，称这是对乌克兰近几个月来袭击俄罗斯的报复性打击。

双方均否认蓄意以平民为攻击目标。

顿巴斯的反攻

泽连斯基表示，代号为“维瓦尔第”的乌克兰反攻行动已成功夺回乌克兰东部顿巴斯地区约140平方公里（54平方英里）的土地，目前仍在进行中。俄罗斯则表示，必须完全控制顿巴斯地区，才能达成任何和平协议。

最近几周，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的政府一直试图重启谈判，以结束这场持续四年的冲突——这是二战以来欧洲最血腥的冲突。

美国领导人上个月敦促乌克兰不要袭击俄罗斯石油设施，称此举导致全球柴油价格飙升。

但泽连斯基在总统府金碧辉煌的大厅外空袭警报响起时表示，他没有收到来自俄罗斯的任何迹象表明普京对和平谈判或讨论能源基础设施停火感兴趣。

过去一周，乌克兰首都基辅持续遭受俄罗斯无人机和导弹袭击，目标包括能源和电信设施、公路和铁路基础设施。俄罗斯首次将攻击目标对准了连接基辅东西部的第聂伯河大桥。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰将对莫斯科策略的改变作出反应，但不会不分青红皂白地攻击民用基础设施。

“我们必须采取一切可能的回应。他们攻击我们的能源，我们也必须以同样的方式予以回击。首先是炼油厂等等：是什么让他们有钱发动这场战争？”泽连斯基用英语说道。“但我们当然不会像他们那样，攻击任何民用目标。”

在特朗普政府邀请普京参加 12 月在迈阿密举行的 G20 峰会并与俄罗斯特使讨论商业交易后，泽连斯基敦促华盛顿在确保恢复和平之前不要与俄罗斯实现关系正常化。

泽连斯基表示，他很乐意在二十国集团峰会期间与普京会面进行和平谈判，但他警告美国不要抱有幻想，认为俄罗斯只要控制了顿巴斯就会结束敌对行动。

泽连斯基身着标志性的黑色T恤和军装外套，说道：“仅仅实现关系正常化是不公平的。”他表示，任何与西方恢复经济和外交关系的尝试都必须以俄罗斯结束敌对行动为前提：“因为和平比任何形式的经济都重要。”

尽管美国提议在未来几周内在阿联酋恢复三方会谈，但泽连斯基指出，技术层面会谈的具体日期和地点尚未确定。

乌克兰官员警告称，俄罗斯已储备数百枚弹道导弹，以应对预计在冬季对乌克兰电力和供水基础设施发起的猛烈攻击。去年冬天，也就是战争最严重的时期，俄罗斯的空袭导致乌克兰大片地区断电断暖数日之久。

自夏季以来，莫斯科也开始每天向乌克兰发射数十架速度快、价格相对低廉的喷气式“沙赫德”无人机，乌克兰的防空部队难以应对，因为他们的拦截无人机速度太慢，无法追上这些无人机。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰被迫严重依赖其战斗机——F-16 和米格——击落了约 60% 的俄罗斯喷气式无人机，但这些飞机的 20 毫米弹药供应即将耗尽。

他说，基辅正在紧急寻求其他解决方案，包括提升其电子干扰能力。10月下半月，基辅将收到首批能够打击新型“沙赫德”导弹的小型廉价防空导弹。

上周，泽连斯基表示，乌克兰正在研发五种新型拦截无人机，能够击落“沙赫德”战斗机。他刚刚结束与国防部长们的会晤，并表示其中两种型号的测试结果显示，成功率仅为30%左右。

“我们需要扩大规模，”他说。“我希望综合所有这些因素，我们能找到解决办法。”

乌克兰本周宣布首次在实战中使用其国产弹道导弹 FP-7，该导弹射程约为 250 公里（155 英里）。

泽连斯基表示，他曾致电制造商火点导弹公司，向其高管施压，要求他们完成射程更远的 FP-9 型导弹的研发。该公司曾表示，该导弹可以打击莫斯科。

泽连斯基笑着说：“我问他们，我的FP-9在哪儿？我们需要FP-9。而且我确信，FP-9今年秋天就能准备就绪。”

泽连斯基表示，俄罗斯最近在欧洲发动的一系列无人机入侵和混合攻击，是为了恐吓欧洲民众，削弱对乌克兰的支持。

他说，一些欧洲领导人开始意识到这一点，并采取了更强硬的立场。

俄罗斯方面表示，这些指控毫无根据，是反俄歇斯底里情绪的产物。

泽连斯基表示，经过本周在布鲁塞尔与欧洲官员的会谈，乌克兰已经获得了资金，可以订购其在2027年初继续作战所需的无人机。

今年，乌克兰官员曾与欧洲伙伴合作制定计划，以填补基辅国防预算中 270 亿美元的缺口。

泽连斯基表示，这些计划包括重新分配乌克兰自身的预算资源、双边援助以及使用明年欧盟900亿欧元贷款中的“资金信贷”。

“我们将消除这一差距。我认为这对我们国家来说绝对是一项巨大的成就，”他说。