The United States hitting refineries in Russia has caused a fuel crisis in the United States.
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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
The claim departs from the passage: the post says "they" (Ukraine, per the surrounding text) continue to hit Russian refineries, not the United States, so the extraction adds an actor the post never names.
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What was said
… Then he says, you know, they're supposed to be in the middle, but they're not in the middle because they're not supporting us; now they're supporting them because we're buying fuel from Russia after they continue to hit refineries in Russia, which has caused the fuel crisis in the United States. Maybe that's true, maybe it's not true. The, the, the, the Us. Has backed Ukraine this entire war. We've dumped billions of dollars in, in weapon stockpiles, billions of dollars in cash. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Analysts and Zelenskyy dispute that Ukrainian refinery strikes caused US fuel-price increases, attributing the main driver to the US-Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruption.[2][3][4][5]
Context. Sources identify Ukraine, not the United States, as the party conducting drone strikes on Russian refineries, and describe US President Trump pressuring Kyiv to stop them.[4][6][7][8]
Context. Russian domestic fuel shortages were attributed to Ukrainian strikes on refineries, which stopped after mid-October following a US-brokered deal, so the Russian crisis itself is documented.[1][9][10]
Sources
10 sources: 1 fact-checker, 9 not rated
- 1Russian oil refineries boost output as drone attacks halt after US-brokered deal, sources sayreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2How are Ukraine strikes, Mideast war driving US fuel prices?france24.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Trump's Russian diesel deal benefits Moscow more than US ...defensenews.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4How Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s oil facilities affect US ...ksbw.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 5Refinery outages pumping up fuel prices more than cost of ...dallasfed.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Ukraine Has Hit Three Russian Refineries Since Friday | OilPrice.comoilprice.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Fire Point says its drones hit a Russian refinery's diesel unit ...euromaidanpress.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Trump tells Ukraine to 'find a new president' as Russia intensifies ...ynetnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Russia's fuel crisis eases as refineries restart and Ukraine's strikes slowintellinews.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 10No quick fixes for the squeeze on refined productsatlanticcouncil.org · not rated · cited for: context
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