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.
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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