Russian-held Sevastopol suspends fuel distribution as Zelenskiy praises attacks

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 Zelenskiy that Kyiv's long-running campaign targeting energy assets in Russia and the lands it annexed had proved its worth.



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.



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.