Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that, following consultations with the Security Service (SBU), he has approved a 40-day operation against Russian targets to “exert pressure on the aggressor state to stop the war.”
elchi reports that on the 1584th day of the war, Zelensky stated that Ukrainian forces struck two oil refineries in Ufa, located 1500 kilometers from the front line, and an oil depot in the Krasnodar region, located 300 kilometers from the front.
Officials from the Krasnoarmeysk district of the Krasnodar region also confirmed that a strike was carried out on an oil depot in Poltavskaya.
Power outages and fuel crisis in Crimea
It was reported that power outages will increase in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia, following the Ukrainian attacks. The regional governor appointed by Russia noted that the Ukrainian attacks left Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea, in the dark. Due to a severe fuel shortage on the peninsula, the sale of gasoline to the public has been completely banned. It was also reported that electricity has been completely or partially cut off in the Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson region bordering Crimea. The Russian governor of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, announced that train services to the region have been reduced.
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