The retail price of a tank of gas in Crimea, a Russia-occupied territory now relentlessly targeted by Ukraine’s drone forces, has shot up near or even possibly more than the cost of filling up one’s auto anywhere else in the world, and is more expensive than Russian vodka, according to motorist accounts and news reports over the weekend. Spot pump prices equivalent in excess of $5/liter (which converts to about $18.93 per US gallon) were reported along the Black Sea peninsula’s southern coast, and nowhere was the per-liter cost in an actual Crimea filling station anywhere near the official Moscow statistic for the price of gasoline in the region: $1.52/liter (about $5.75/gallon).A territory with more than 3 million residents that Russia invaded and declared annexed in 2014, Crimea is almost completely landlocked excepting a bridge to the Russian mainland to its east and a land road corridor to its north. Both access routes have been hit with dozens, and on some days, more than a hundred Ukrainian drone strikes daily in an anti-logistics bombardment campaign launched by Kyiv in early July, with the declared objective of cutting links between Crimea and mainland Russia.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Local, Moscow-loyal officials have admitted the attacks have inhibited fuel supply to Crimea but have insisted the Ukrainian attacks don’t do too much damage and that the fuel shortages are temporary.