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Russian air defense position burns in occupied Crimea after Kerch explosions — satellite images
Subscribers to the group's Telegram channel reported hearing several explosions in Kerch. A separate fire is also still burning aboard tankers struck by Ukraine's Defense Forces in the Sea of Azov, "unless,
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Kyiv’s campaign of drone strikes has caused a fuel and electricity crisis in the occupied Black Sea peninsula, triggering a state of emergency.
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Attacks have been carried out on the TES company's oil and gas terminal in Kerch, electricity substations near Simferopol and other facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukraine has vowed to retake Crimea from Russia, persistently attacking the Black Sea peninsula Moscow seized in 2014.
Escalating drone strikes, fuel shortages and power cuts in the region Russia annexed are among the factors turning up the heat on President Vladimir V. Putin.
Energy shortages have continued to plague Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, following repeated, intensified Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula.
Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-occupied Crimea in particular,
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have damaged 38 energy load centres in temporarily occupied Crimea and the Russian-occupied southern territories in the first days of