U.S. Participating in Ukraine’s Large Scale Attacks on Russian Energy Facilities

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U.S. Participating in Ukraine’s Large Scale Attacks on Russian Energy Facilities

October-13th-2025



ATACMS Launch and Gas Explosion in Russia


American and Ukrainian officials speaking to the Financial Times have reported that the United States has been playing a key role in the ongoing large scale attacks on Russian energy facilities being launched from Ukraine. U.S. intelligence is being supplied to allow Ukrainian drone operators to plan the routes and the altitudes for their flights, and to select the best timing for the attacks, while American advisors also set target priorities. The sources reported that Ukrainian strikes on energy facilities were seen in Washington as an “instrument” to undermine the Russian economy and pressure Moscow towards freezing the conflict on terms favourable to Western interests. The revelations follow a statement by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov asserting that it was “obvious” to Moscow that “all of NATO and U.S. infrastructure is being used to collect and pass on intelligence to the Ukrainian side.”



Explosion at the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery in October After Ukrainian Drone Strike


NATO member states including the United States have played a central role in facilitating Ukrainain attacks on Russian targets since the outbreak of full scale hostilities in 2022. In February 2023 Russian government has claimed that NATO’s entire network of satellites, and more broadly the alliance’s entire military infrastructure was working to support Ukraine’s war effort. As early as February 2023 an official statement from the Kremlin alleged: "We see how NATO’s entire military infrastructure is working against Russia, and we see how NATO’s entire intelligence infrastructure, including reconnaissance aviation, and satellite groupings are working in the interests of Ukraine in a 24/7 mode.” This included rapid provision of targeting data for missile and artillery strikes, which had taken a heavy toll on Russian forces.



American Forward Observations Group Personnel in Kursk


Four months prior in October 2022 the New York Times reported that a CIA ‘stealth network’ was at the crux of the war, referring to the U.S. as establishing within Ukraine “a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training... C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kiev, directing much of the massive amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces.” The “signs of their stealthy logistics, training and intelligence support are tangible on the battlefield,” the Times observed. “Commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine... training and advising Ukrainian troops and providing an on-the-ground conduit for weapons and other aid,” it added, stressing the sheer “scale of the secretive effort to assist Ukraine that is underway.” Signs of such Western involvement have grown considerably over the past three years, including a growing reliance on Western combatants on the frontlines such as the Polish Volunteer Corps and American Forward Observation Group.



Sudzha Pipeline Explosion


In March 2025 the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that the United Kingdom and France had played a central role in a recent Ukrainian attack on Russian energy infrastructure, namely the Sudzha pipeline, which was “de facto destroyed” using U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket artillery. “Targeting and navigation were facilitated through French satellites and British specialists input [target] coordinates and launched [the missiles]… The command came from London,” the Ministry stated. Western officials have increasingly expressed support for large scale attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, in some cases with the goal of leaving entire regions uninhabitable. Targeting data from satellites and aircraft, support from personnel on the ground to use complex equipment, and the supples of missiles, drone components, industrial experts and funding, were all part of this. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has alleged that the Western goal of pressuring Russia to freeze the conflict is to allow Ukraine to rebuild its forces and eventually resume hostilities on more favourable terms.