{"id":10025,"date":"2026-06-27T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/10025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:54:11","slug":"crimea-declares-state-of-emergency-after-ukraine-cuts-off-supply-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/10025\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimea declares state of emergency after Ukraine cuts off supply routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia seized Crimea in 2014 in an annexation rejected by most of the world, including many of Moscow\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has never recognised the occupation and insists the peninsula remains part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia launched its <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/02\/25\/why-has-russia-invaded-ukraine-attack-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invasion<\/a> in February 2022, Kyiv has systematically targeted Russian energy infrastructure in an effort to strangle the Kremlin\u2019s war revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has intensified in recent weeks as Ukraine turns its focus to cutting Crimea off entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a former senior Ukrainian intelligence official has been sentenced to life in prison for spying for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Col Dmytro Kozyura, the former chief of staff of the Ukrainian Security Service\u2019s anti-terrorism centre, was found guilty of high treason under martial law after an operation codenamed \u201crat\u201d uncovered his activities.<\/p>\n<p>Kozyura, recruited by Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service in Vienna in 2018, had used a safehouse in Kyiv to communicate with Russian handlers, sharing classified information about Ukraine\u2019s military and leadership in exchange for financial reward, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Security Service said it had used Kozyura to feed Russian forces disinformation before his arrest in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He was also found guilty of the illegal handling of weapons and explosives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia seized Crimea in 2014 in an annexation rejected by most of the world, including many of Moscow\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[426,907,83,25,6,11,655,81],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crimea","tag-drones-aircraft","tag-live-priority","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-standard","tag-us-content","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}