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A screengrab from a video posted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 21, 2026, as Ukrainian authorities said they had carried out strikes in Crimea.<\/p>\n
Alongside attacks on land, Kyiv has doggedly targeted Russia\u2019s Black Sea naval fleet around Crimea, seriously damaging or destroying at least a third of the fleet, according to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said last week that Kyiv was trying to turn Crimea \u201cinto an island.\u201d Fuel stations stopped selling gas to the public in Crimea on Sunday, and Aksyonov said only government agencies would be able to access fuel supplies.<\/p>\n
Crimea had already restricted fuel sales amid the persistent Ukrainian drone attacks. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Crimea\u2019s main city, said no fuel would be sold in the area on Monday or Tuesday, except for emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n
All outdoor events have been banned, streetlights have been turned off, and authorities in Crimea have said public transport timetables have been scaled back.<\/p>\n
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday \u201cintensive\u201d efforts to keep up fuel supplies and \u201cminimize the negative consequences of the Kyiv regime\u2019s barbaric actions,\u201d according to Russia\u2019s Tass state news agency.<\/p>\n
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Cars line up at a gas station in Simferopol, Crimea, on June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n
Ukraine said on Sunday it struck several targets near the Crimean Bridge, commonly referred to as the Kerch Bridge<\/a>, including two oil sites and four radars used by Russia\u2019s advanced air defense systems to detect incoming threats.<\/p>\n The Kerch Bridge links Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region and the peninsula. Ukraine has repeatedly targeted the bridge, which was personally unveiled by Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0in 2018 and is an appealing propaganda, as well as military, target for Kyiv.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s military then said on Monday the weekend\u2019s strikes had damaged part of the Kavkaz oil port in Krasnodar and two car ferries around the bridge that were used to supply Russian troops in occupied parts of Ukraine.<\/p>\n Geolocated footage from Sunday showed three ferries on fire between Krasnodar and Crimea, according to the U.S.-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the operations were a \u201cjust response\u201d to Russian attacks on Ukraine.<\/p>\n Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Frances Mao<\/a> and Sam Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Articles<\/p>\n