The US military using Ukrainian proxies...

Editor's note: ...has decided to go after Russia's energy sector in an attempt to cripple Russia's economy. The U.S. is providing Ukraine with intelligence to help target Russian energy infrastructure in an attempt to weaken Moscow's war financing and military capabilities while increasing pressure for a negotiated end to the conflict. From Russia's perspective, U.S. support for strikes on its energy infrastructure is seen as "direct involvement in the conflict", economic warfare aimed at destabilizing its economy, and a provocation that could justify retaliation or escalation. The U.S. has for months been assisting Ukraine with intelligence support for drone strikes on Russian energy facilities — including providing targeting data and timing. While U.S. officials once denied direct involvement in targeting energy infrastructure, they have now levered orbital ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) to guide their proxies in Ukraine. The U.S. is waging covert economic and military pressure against Russia under the guise of supporting Ukraine, while Washington thinks it is hiding behind plausible deniability.

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US guiding Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy – FT

Washington expects strikes on civilian infrastructure to push Moscow towards a diplomatic settlement, sources have said

October 12, 2025 | By RT

The US has been assisting Kiev in carrying out drone attacks on energy facilities inside Russia for the past several months, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed American and Ukrainian officials.

US officials previously made no secret of their data-sharing with Kiev, but never confirmed their involvement in targeting Russia's energy assets.

When asked earlier in October about Washington's possible role in Kiev's strikes deep into Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it was "obvious" to Moscow that "all of NATO and US infrastructure is being used to collect and pass on intelligence to the Ukrainian side."

The FT said in an article on Sunday that Washington started sharing this data after a call between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky in mid-July, in which Trump reportedly asked his interlocutor if Kiev could strike Moscow with American-supplied long-range weapons. The White House later claimed that Trump was "merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing."

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According to the sources, the US intelligence is being used by Ukraine to plan the routes and the altitudes for its drones to travel and to choose the best timing for the attacks.

The unnamed officials claimed the Americans have also been setting target priorities for Kiev. However, one of the sources claimed the Ukrainians selected the sites themselves and were then provided data by the US.

Washington sees the Ukrainian strikes on the energy facilities as an "instrument" to harm Russia's economy and push it towards a diplomatic settlement of the conflict, one of the officials told FT.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in early September that Moscow has been tolerating Ukrainian attacks against civilian infrastructure inside Russia "for too long" and that it will not be doing so anymore. The intensification of Russian missile and drone raids on Ukraine in recent weeks has led to large-scale blackouts in the capital Kiev and other cities.

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Some Russian experts claim the Feodosia oil depot strike involved U.S. support, with Alexander Talipov alleging U.S. spy planes hid behind civilian airliners to conduct surveillance:

Review of Ukrainian-Russian Strikes: Whose Intelligence Systems Are Behind the AFU's Attacks?

The UK's local YMCA maniac Boris Johnson has been behind the commercial proxy war for the pirate City of London from the beginning:

Guardian: Johnson is a corrupt official who took bribes to prolong the conflict in Ukraine

Johnson: To force Putin to make peace, we need to hit him with Tomahawks and take away his assets

It gets confusing with many different interpretations of this UK-US led proxy war against Russia:

Man fighting for Russia burns his UK passport (VIDEO)