Fuel sales have been completely suspended at petrol stations throughout Russian-annexed Crimea, the peninsula’s Kremlin-installed regional head, Sergey Aksyonov, announced on Sunday, as the effects of Ukrainian airstrikes on Russian oil infrastructure continued to be felt in the region.
“Today, 21 June, from 9am, the sale of fuel at Crimean petrol stations has been suspended, whether paid for in cash, by card or using vouchers, for both individuals and businesses,” Aksyonov wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that the sole exceptions would be made for those on state business “to ensure the functioning and security of the Republic of Crimea”.
The announcement came at the end of another week of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian oil facilities, including overnight strikes on an oil depot on the Crimea’s Kerch Peninsula and on Port Kavkaz, on the Russian side of the Kerch Strait, which left four civilians dead and another 28 injured, Aksyonov said in a post earlier on Sunday morning.
In addition, a high-rise apartment block in Kerch was damaged, according to Telegram channels Exilenova+and ASTRA, while one person was killed and another injured in a Ukrainian strike on a ferry crossing the Kerch Strait, according to the Krasnodar regional authorities. Services on the route, which connects Russia to annexed Crimea, have been temporarily suspended.
In Ukraine, at least eight people were killed in Russian attacks overnight on Saturday. Two people were killed and 14 more were injured by shelling in the country’s central Poltava region, five people were killed and another 12 were injured in Russian airstrikes on the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, while one person was killed and nine more were injured in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
