With intense strikes that have already dramatically reduced Crimea’s supply, Ukraine hopes to isolate the occupied peninsula, write Reuters and The Moscow Times.
The drone attacks of Ukraine, which are intensifying in the areas occupied by Russia, have disrupted military logistics and fuel supply, prompting authorities to introduce fuel rationing in Crimea last month.
Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, stated that this campaign has reduced traffic on the Novorossiia highway, a critical Russian military supply route that crosses the occupied southern Ukraine towards Crimea, by more than two-thirds in the last month.
In another month, Ukraine would have total control over the road, Brovdi said. “We will isolate Crimea in the near future,” Brovdi told Reuters.
Russia occupied the Crimean Peninsula and vast areas of Eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Moscow has admitted the problems
President Vladimir Putin acknowledged last week that Ukraine’s drone attacks were causing damage, but did not pose a threat to Russia’s economy.
The Ministry of Energy in Moscow has also admitted that Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries and the country’s energy infrastructure are the cause of the recent gasoline shortage in annexed Crimea and some areas of southern Russia, according to The Moscow Times.
The governor of the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, under Russian control, declared on Wednesday that plans for the distribution of rationed gasoline have been postponed because trucks could not transport the fuel into the city.
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