Ukrainian strikes on Crimea triggered power outages in its largest city, Sevastopol, both sides reported yesterday, as Kyiv intensifies its attempts to cut off the peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
Crimea has been forced to suspend fuel sales to the public as Ukraine’s army targets Russian logistics to the region, and has hit a series of oil refineries and depots across southern Russia that provide supplies.
Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev urged residents to help neighbors, and reserve phones for emergency communication to save battery and avoid overloading the grid.
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“The enemy is once again striking treacherously, attempting to deprive us of normal living conditions and sow panic,” Razvozhayev wrote on social media.
Separate Ukrainian drone attacks killed two people in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, hundreds of kilometers from the front line, and one in the border region of Belgorod, the local governors reported.
A Russian drone attack killed a 56-year-old woman in the Ukrainian border region of Kharkiv, authorities said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the country’s forces had destroyed more than 300 drones from Ukraine overnight, with the warring neighbors having stepped up strikes in the past few weeks.
Kyiv’s air force yesterday said that Moscow launched 101 drones at Ukraine overnight, of which 95 were destroyed.
Ukraine on Tuesday said that its forces struck a railway bridge, a power plant and other key infrastructure targets in Crimea.
Ukraine’s increasing use of long-range strikes has highlighted its ability to inflict painful damage on Russia and put added pressure on the Kremlin while Moscow’s advances recently have ground to a near halt, Western analysts and officials say.
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov last week said that his forces are “isolating Crimea with drones.”
“It looks like in the nearest time, Crimea will become an island. This could lead to some very unexpected consequences for Russians,” Fedorov said on a blogger’s YouTube channel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had been warned that Ukraine aimed to disrupt energy supplies and Russia’s tourism industry.
He did not say who gave the warning.
Ukrainian drones “coming in a huge stream” seek to “destabilize” Russian society, Putin said.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Putin on Tuesday that officials were considering suspending diesel fuel exports to protect the country’s motorists, adding to ongoing bans on the export of jet fuel and gasoline, according to the Tass news agency.
Novak also said scheduled maintenance at refineries had been postponed.
Ukraine’s defense ministry said drones struck an oil storage depot at the Kerch thermal power plant in eastern Crimea, an electrical substation in the west, and a liquefied natural gas distribution station in Simferopol, the peninsula’s second-biggest city.
In addition, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said their units, working with what it said was the resistance movement in Crimea, destroyed a rail bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne.
The military described the span as a key logistics route used to supply Russian forces in southern Ukraine and said drones began hitting the structure late on Sunday to Monday, collapsing part of it.
A second strike early Tuesday targeted railway repair equipment deployed at the bridge and its remaining sections, it said on Telegram.
It was not possible to independently verify the Ukrainian claims, and Russian officials made no immediate comment.
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