Russia Rations Fuel in Crimea as Ukraine Targets Oil Infrastructure

Russian-installed authorities in occupied Crimea have suspended fuel sales to private individuals and businesses amid a severe fuel shortage and a weak tourist season, as Ukrainian drone strikes continue to disrupt Russia's oil and transport infrastructure. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of the peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, announced that as of June 21, gas stations in Crimea would no longer sell fuel to anyone except state agencies. "Fuel will be supp