Ukraine Shifts Strategy to Cripple Russia's Fuel Pipeline Network

Ukrainian drones struck Moscow's petroleum-product pipeline rings in May, targeting finished-fuel distribution rather than crude refineries. This compresses Russia's strategic depth: finished-product pipelines lack the redundancy and stockpile margins of raw crude infrastructure. Combined with recent strikes on refineries, the pattern reveals a counter-logistics doctrine—degrading supply at multiple nodes to exhaust reserves faster than Russia can replenish them.