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Drones and Blackouts Inflict a Tense Summer on Russia-Annexed Crimea
Ukraine’s campaign has pushed petrol prices to about $3 a litre and forced daily power cuts, residents and officials said.
- Ukraine has escalated strikes on Crimea's fuel and electrical facilities over recent months, causing severe blackouts and shortages for the territory's 2.4 million people.
- Crimea holds symbolic importance for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who promised locals a better life under Moscow's rule; researcher Maria Snegovaya noted the peninsula is the "crown jewel of Russia's territorial conquests since 2014."
- Daily life for residents like Oksana in Yalta involves relying on generators; petrol now costs around 250 rubles, or about $3, as getting supplies from Russia has become treacherous.
- Two were killed overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, Crimea's governor Sergei Aksyonov said, amid frequent Ukrainian attacks on the 19-kilometre Kerch bridge and the supply route known as the "road of death."
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky aims to "create the conditions under which Russia will be forced to choose peace," though tourism worker Georgy told AFP, "We're already used to it, really... Nothing scares us anymore.
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For weeks Ukrainian attacks have caused blackouts and disruptions of basic services: Putin's regime defines it as a "temporary" situation.
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A Russian air-defence drill or a Ukrainian drone attack? Local Georgy shrugged. "We're already used to it, really ... nothing scares us anymore," he told AFP. Ukraine has heavily targeted the Black Sea territory -- a popular summer retreat despite the four-and-a-half-year war -- escalating a campaign of strikes on fuel and electrical facilities over recent months. But like Georgy, who works in the tourism sector, many in Crimea are simply carry…
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