Ukraine is doing a number on Crimea, and Putin is feeling the pinch

OIL’S NOT WELL IN MOSCOW: The social media platform X is filled with videos these days showing Russian refineries, arms factories, and supply routes being hit by Ukraine’s middle-range drones and missiles. Ukraine has also been focusing on strangling the occupied Crimean peninsula, cutting the mainland route used to bring food and fuel into the popular tourist resort, and sparking an exodus and long traffic jams on the only bridge that links Crimea to the Russian mainland.

At a Kremlin meeting this week, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak reported to President Vladimir Putin that the “current situation on the fuel market … is challenging but manageable” and details the emergency measures that were being implemented.