Fuel trucks were unable to reach captured Sevastopol due to Ukrainian strikes, Reuters reports.

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It is known that there is currently a fuel shortage on the peninsula.

The so-called governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, in Russian-occupied Crimea, stated that plans to distribute gasoline using coupons have been postponed because trucks were unable to deliver fuel to the city due to recent Ukrainian attacks on supply routes, Reuters reported .

“Mikhail Razvozhaev’s statement that gasoline coupons are temporarily unusable coincided with comments from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Kyiv’s ongoing campaign against energy facilities in Russia and its annexed territories has proven effective,” the article emphasized.

The publication recalled that Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, introduced fuel rationing last month due to a shortage on the peninsula.

“Unfortunately, tanker trucks were unable to arrive in the city this evening,” Razvozzhaev wrote on Telegram, noting that public transportation and utility services, as well as emergency and government vehicles, will receive priority for refueling on Thursday.

“I appeal to everyone: there is no point in standing in line at… gas stations tomorrow,” he noted late Wednesday evening, adding that existing fuel coupons would be cancelled and new ones would be issued on Thursday.

Razvozhaev later reported that more than two dozen Ukrainian drones were shot down in the early hours of Thursday during a new attack on Sevastopol, the peninsula’s second-largest city and the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

It is noted that the fuel shortage in the city arose when Ukraine intensified its campaign of drone strikes and medium- and long-range missiles against Russian industrial facilities, which forced Russia to cut oil production in the world’s third-largest producer.

“In recent months, we have been particularly grateful for the medium-range strikes: Russian military logistics throughout the entire depth of the temporarily occupied territory are now within range of Ukrainian drones,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address.

(C)UNIAN 2026