The governor of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea said on Wednesday that plans for distributing rationed petrol had been delayed because trucks had been unable to bring the fuel into the city, following recent Ukraine strikes on supply routes.
Mikhail Razvozhayev’s announcement that petrol rationing coupons temporarily could not be honoured coincided with remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Kyiv’s long-running campaign targeting energy assets in Russia and the lands it annexed had proved its worth.
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Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, long before Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, introduced rationing for fuel last month because of shortages in the peninsula.
“Unfortunately, oil tanker trucks were unable to come to the city tonight,” Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram, adding that priority for refuelling on Thursday would be given to public transport and utilities, emergency and government vehicles.
“I am addressing everyone: there is no point in lining up at... the gas stations tomorrow,” he said late on Wednesday, adding that existing fuel rationing coupons would be cancelled and new ones issued on Thursday.
Over two dozen Ukrainian drones were downed in the early hours of Thursday in a fresh attack on Sevastopol, the peninsula’s second-largest city and home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, Razvozhayev later said on Telegram.
The city’s fuel shortages come as Ukraine intensifies its campaign of medium and long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian industry facilities, which already forced Moscow to cut oil output in the world’s third-largest producer.
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