Fuel stations across Russian-occupied Crimea ran out of petrol on Thursday, Reuters reported, as Ukraine intensified strikes on the supply routes Moscow relies on to keep the peninsula connected to Russian-held southern Ukraine. Reuters witnesses said most petrol stations in Sevastopol, Crimea’s largest city, had no fuel, while a long queue formed outside the only working station in the resort town of Yevpatoriya.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The shortages come after weeks of disruption to Russian logistics lines, with Moscow-installed authorities imposing rationing as fuel supplies struggled to reach the peninsula. Some foodstuffs have also reportedly begun running short. Russian-backed Sevastopol governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said on Wednesday that plans to distribute rationed petrol had been delayed because trucks were unable to bring fuel into the city after recent Ukrainian strikes on supply routes. Crimea, seized by Russia in 2014, is largely supplied by road and rail through Russian-occupied territories north of the peninsula. Those routes have come under increasing Ukrainian drone attacks. Fuel had previously also reached Crimea by barge through an oil terminal in Feodosia, but that route was disrupted after Ukraine struck the terminal in April. The latest shortages coincide with a broader Ukrainian campaign against Russia’s logistics network in occupied southern Ukraine. Kyiv Post reported on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces have been intensifying strikes on the R-280 highway, known by Russian forces as the “Novorossiya” route, a critical corridor linking Rostov-on-Don to occupied Crimea via Mariupol, Melitopol and the Sea of Azov coast.