Ukrainian Drone Strikes Shut 80% of Crimea Fuel Stations as Rationing Hits Summer Travel
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Updated · Kyiv Post · Jun 2
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Shut 80% of Crimea Fuel Stations as Rationing Hits Summer Travel
3 articles · Updated · Kyiv Post · Jun 2
Summary
About 80% of Crimea’s fuel stations could not sell standard gasoline on Tuesday, leaving queues up to 1 kilometer long and forcing 20-liter limits or sales only to ration-ticket holders.
Ukrainian drones caused the shortages by hitting rail yards, fuel trucks, storage depots and other supply links to the occupied peninsula, including an overnight strike on the Dzhankoi rail bottleneck.
Sevastopol’s Moscow-installed governor said open sales would resume on Wednesday, but Russian and local reports showed shortages in Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yevpatoria and Feodosia with little public confidence in that timeline.
The disruption is amplified by damaged logistics: heavy traffic over the Kerch Bridge is largely unavailable, ferries can carry only about 100 cars and 50 trucks, and truckers reportedly wait days to cross.
For Crimea’s summer season, the squeeze threatens a peninsula of 2 million-plus residents that nearly doubles with tourists, while black-market gasoline has climbed to 200-300 rubles a liter.