The campaign is accompanied by drone attacks on energy targets within Russia. While burning fuel tanks at this or that of many Russian refineries may look impressive the effects on Russia have so fare been mere nuances. Ongoing drone attacks on Crimea have led to inconveniences for the inhabitants of the island.

The Ukrainian campaign is supported by the Europeans who are trying to pull the U.S. back into the conflict. The U.S. however had never left. After the meeting between President Trump and President Putin in August 2025 in Anchorage there was talk about an agreement between the two presidents but no announcement of any specifics.

After the meeting Trump had called for Ukraine to leave the Donbas area to make peace with Russia. But he never applied any pressure to achieve that outcome. Meanwhile U.S. intelligence and weapon support for Ukraine continued.

For a while Russia had seemed to believe in the 'sprit of Anchorage' and had expressed hope for an end on the conflict along Trump's proposal. That view has long since gone away.

Now U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has officially dismissed any talk of an Anchorage agreement:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump failed to secure any final agreements on Ukraine settlement at their meeting in Anchorage.

"There was no agreement in Alaska. There was a proposal in Alaska, but there was no agreement in Alaska. If there had been an agreement, we would have had an end to the war," Rubio told journalists in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, in the course of his state visit.

Now Rubio's underling even declares that Ukraine is winning:

Speaking ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gda?sk, US Deputy Secretary of State Jeremy Levin said the conflict has shifted in Kyiv's favor, Mezha reported.

"As of now, we are in a position where Ukraine is winning the war at this moment" Levin said, adding that the situation on the battlefield has shifted in Kyiv's favor, allowing Washington to speak about Ukraine's success as a current reality instead of a distant goal.

Levin said that the conflict dynamics have reversed, with Ukrainian troops now advancing, while Russian forces are effectively waiting for winter. The shift in dynamics has been made possible by Ukraine's ongoing strikes on critical oil infrastructure in Russia, essentially increasing the cost of the war for Moscow and forcing it to divert resources away from the front, he said.