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Ukraine has intensified drone strikes on Crimea's power and fuel infrastructure, causing widespread blackouts and acute shortages. For over four years, Putin shielded Russians from the war's hardships, but residents of the annexed peninsula now face its consequences firsthand.
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Russians Feel the War’s Hardships as Ukraine Pummels Crimea
Strikes on fuel and power infrastructure have cut electricity in parts of Crimea, strained water supplies and pushed residents to the black market for gasoline
By Daria Matviichuk and
Thomas Grove
June 28, 2026 3:34 pmET
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!Cars line up at a petrol station in Simferopol, Crimea.
*Cars lined up this month at a gas station in Crimea.
Associated Press*
For more than four years, Vladimir Putin has tried to shield Russians from the hardships of war. But in Crimea, residents and tourists drawn to its sandy beaches are now enduring the conflict’s costs firsthand.
Ukraine has made the Black Sea peninsula that Putin annexed in 2014 a new theater of the war with hundreds of Ukrainian drone attacks each day on Crimean power and fuel facilities, a campaign that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describes as “long-range sanctions.” Crimea now has regular air-raid alerts, power outages and a gasoline black market with a going rate of as much as $25 a gallon.
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1. World
2. Europe
Russians Feel the War’s Hardships as Ukraine Pummels Crimea
Strikes on fuel and power infrastructure have cut electricity in parts of Crimea, strained water supplies and pushed residents to the black market for gasoline
By Daria Matviichuk and
Thomas Grove
June 28, 2026 3:34 pmET
---
!Cars line up at a petrol station in Simferopol, Crimea.
*Cars lined up this month at a gas station in Crimea.
Associated Press*
For more than four years, Vladimir Putin has tried to shield Russians from the hardships of war. But in Crimea, residents and tourists drawn to its sandy beaches are now enduring the conflict’s costs firsthand.
Ukraine has made the Black Sea peninsula that Putin annexed in 2014 a new theater of the war with hundreds of Ukrainian drone attacks each day on Crimean power and fuel facilities, a campaign that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describes as “long-range sanctions.” Crimea now has regular air-raid alerts, power outages and a gasoline black market with a going rate of as much as $25 a gallon.
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Jet-Fuel Prices Are Spiking and Trump’s Advisers Are Worried
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We Investigated Damage From Iran to a U.S. Naval Base. Here’s What We Found.
European Soccer Fans Marvel at the Splendor of America’s Suburbs
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The Father Who Bankrolled a High-School Football Team for His Son
U.S., Iran Carry Out New Strikes, Testing Fragile Ceasefire
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Pritzker Goes on a Junk Tax Spree
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