Meanwhile the largest city in Crimea, Sevastopol was less impacted by the attacks than the rest of the peninsula. While most of the rest of Crimea had no fuel, Sevastopol was only limiting fuel sales two days a week. But a couple of days ago things changed when a drone strike set the electrical substations on fire. Much of the city went dark.
Today, after another massive wave of drone attacks, Crimea declared a state of emergency. Now thousands of cars have created a massive traffic jam trying to escape.
The authorities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula controlled by Russia, declared a state of emergency on Friday after weeks of intense air attacks by Ukraine, including a wave of drone strikes overnight that appears to have been one of the largest since the war began...
Gas stations in Crimea have run out of fuel, with local officials banning sales last Sunday. Summer camps have been canceled and children have been evacuated. Rolling power outages have crippled the territory, disrupting water supplies that rely on electric pumps.
Tourists who had already arrived in Crimea were leaving. On Friday, thousands of cars were lined up on the Crimean side of the bridge linking it to the Russian mainland, with none on the other side waiting to enter, officials said
All of this happened after a large number of strikes earlier today.
Russia's Tass state news agency said Ukraine fired more drones in the attack than it had during any previous assault in the last year. The Russian Defense Ministry said 660 drones were intercepted. The previous largest Ukrainian attack this year involved 556 drones, on May 17...
Ukraine's national Security Service said that Ukrainian drones struck two military vessels and several air defense systems in the Kerch region of Crimea. Russian and Ukrainian channels on the Telegram social media platform reported a strike on the Azot chemical plant in Russia's Tula region, which would be the second time the facility was targeted in two weeks.