His shop would typically sell up to 400 ice creams a day. But a series of Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula this summer has seen the visitors dry up."The season is completely ruined, it's practically non-existent," he told AFP from Simeiz, a beachside community of around 2,500 people.Once a magnet for millions of Russian holidaymakers each year, Crimea's tourism industry has collapsed in recent months, as Ukrainian drone attacks have starved the peninsula of electricity and fuel.Hotel bookings have fallen more than 70 percent compared to last July, while restaurants and swimming pools lie empty.The Russian government has pledged to support the sector, offering a one-time payment to tourism workers equivalent to three months' salary, but the amount is based on the minimum wage and is not a long-term fix.Anatoli said he was now trying to make ends meet on just a fraction of his former business."We're still carrying on, because everything had been prepared in advance: the equipment, the repairs, the licence, the taxes," he said.Empty loungersWith its abundance of cicadas, plentiful sunshine a year and verdant olive groves, Crimea's southern coast is in many ways more reminiscent of the Mediterranean than much of Russia, which seized the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.