Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the country’s long-running campaign targeting energy assets in Russia and the lands it annexed, saying it has proved its worth. The governor of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea, Mikhail Razvozhayev, announced that plans for distributing rationed petrol had been delayed due to recent Ukraine strikes on supply routes.

Impact on Sevastopol

The city’s fuel shortages come as Ukraine intensifies its campaign of medium and long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian industry facilities. Razvozhayev stated that oil tanker trucks were unable to bring fuel into the city, and priority for refuelling would be given to public transport and utilities, emergency and government vehicles.

Over two dozen Ukrainian drones were downed in a fresh attack on Sevastopol, the peninsula’s second-largest city and home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The city’s fuel shortages have been exacerbated by the strikes, which have forced Moscow to cut oil output in the world’s third-largest producer.

Ukrainian Drone Attacks

Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied port of Mariupol, Kyiv said, the latest in a series of drone attacks on logistics across a critical stretch of Moscow-held southern Ukraine connecting Russia to Crimea. The attack on the port, which Ukraine’s military said plunged the site into a blackout, followed two strikes earlier this week on a bridge linking the Russian-occupied Kherson region to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.

Zelenskiy said in his evening address that the mid-strikes have allowed Ukrainian drones to reach Russian military logistics throughout the entire depth of the temporarily occupied territory. He also stated that the impact of the strikes reaches Russia’s border regions, and Ukraine will continue to expand it.

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