Washington's Pleas Fall on Deaf Ears as Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries

Just days after the Biden administration signed a new military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Biden's top officials have pleaded with Kyiv to stop attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure because of the fears that turmoil in crude markets would send pump prices in the US higher ahead of the presidential elections in November.  "Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs," Smolensk Governor Vasily…