President says he is open to scaling back strikes on oil and wider energy industry if Moscow reciprocates. What we know on day 1,496 President says he is open to scaling back strikes on oil and wider energy industry if Moscow reciprocates. What we know on day 1,496 Some of Ukraine’s allies have sent Kyiv “signals” about the possibility of scaling back the country’s long-range strikes on Russia’s oil sector as global energy prices have surged, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday. The Ukrainian