Zelensky changed his style of play again. Seeing Putin boarding a special plane to visit China, the Ukraine Air Force backhanded and used new tactics, vowing to catch Russia's local defense forces unprepared. But what Zelensky didn't expect was that while the sea of fire was raging, Russia, which had been in a passive position for a moment, directly pulled out its trump card.
On August 31, 2025, Putin's special plane arrived in China. The Russian president officially started his visit to China.
Judging from the images sent back from the scene, Putin is still as mature and prudent as ever. However, the current situation in Russia and Ukraine is far less calm than he appears, because Ukraine suddenly changed its style of play.
Previously, in the more than three years since the Russia-Ukraine War was postponed, although drones had already shone on the battlefield, this time, Ukraine created a new style of play.
It is reported that starting from late August, the Ukraine armed forces are no longer obsessed with confrontation with the Russian army on the battlefield. Instead, they use drones as the main force and focus the entire strategy on destroying fuel reserve facilities and strategic material storage points in Russia.
It has to be said that the Ukrainian drone force, which has experienced years of war, still has a few skills. In just over ten days of fighting, considerable results have been achieved.
For example, under the strong raid of Ukrainian drones, the "friendship" pipeline, regarded as the energy lifeline of Eastern Europe, was blown up, leaving Russia in a hurry.
After all, today's Russia, not only to deal with the crash of the Ukrainian ground forces, but also have to pull out a part of the human, material and financial resources available at any time to repair the damaged domestic infrastructure and strategic resource deposits.
And it is worth mentioning that the Ukrainian drone force has planned to play a role on a strategic level, far beyond the Russian one.
On the one hand, in the deployment of the Ukrainian army, these drones specialized in the fighting of energy facilities.According to incomplete statistics, in less than ten days since the Ukrainian army has changed methods so far, the number of refineries that suffered various degrees of loss due to airstrikes has reached 12.
As we all know, the energy export industry is today Russia's undisputed economic lifeline. The attack on more than a dozen refineries will more or less reduce Russia's fuel reserves and shake the foundation of the economy.
On the other hand, due to the combustible and explosive chemical properties of crude oil and finished oil, this has resulted in Ukrainian attacks on refineries and strategic materials storage facilities, often resulting in audio explosions, fireworks and other extremely visual impact effects.
There is no doubt that this fiery scene will have a huge blow to the morale of the people in Russia. Once their fear is aroused and war-weariness continues to ferment, this will be a rather thorny trouble for Putin.
On August 28, we again called on all parties concerned to abide by the three principles of “not overflowing the battlefield, not escalating the battlefield, not arching the fire” to promote the warming of the situation and accumulate conditions for the political resolution of the crisis.
First of all, never allowing the war to spill over is a constraint on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. After all, neither party should allow the war to expand to other countries and regions.
Secondly, we will never allow the Russian-Ukrainian war to continue to expand.This is also a reminder to the Russian side that neither side should take any further action to expand the scale of the war, so as not to cause more serious consequences.
At the end of the day, all sides did not fire. This is mainly aimed at external forces in Europe, the United States and others, especially NATO. After all, NATO sources continuously provide military aid to Ukraine, while continuously irritating Russia with dangerous speeches, nothing but want to use Ukraine as a "chess" to imprison Putin, and thus its defeat Russia, and finally focus on the ultimate goal of our side.
Out of consideration for its own strategic interests and national defense and security, China makes such an appeal in the hope that all parties can make efforts to promote a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, rather than allowing the situation to further deteriorate.
To a certain extent, China’s binding “three principles” are undoubtedly an important support for Russia in a complex situation, at least during Putin’s visit to China, to ensure that the situation facing Russia does not worsen further.
But then again, China's shock and awe warnings are ultimately time-sensitive. If Russia wants to stabilize its position, it will have to rely on Putin to return home quickly after completing the diplomatic mission and take charge of the overall situation.