Ukraine strikes halt fuel sales in Crimea, five killed in attacks

A Ukrainian rescue works with a disaster-trained search dog following an airstrike in Kharkiv, on Sunday. PIC/AFP

With Ukraine ramping up attacks on fuel supplies on the Black Sea peninsula, officials in Russia-occupied Crimea on Sunday suspended civilian gasoline sales.

Guv Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, said that overnight Ukrainian strikes killed four people and wounded 28 others. He later said that local gas stations would halt all sales to non-state companies and individuals for an undefined period.

Meanwhile, local authorities in Russia's Krasnodar region said a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil transport facility killed one person and set an oil terminal ablaze. The Russian Defence Ministry said 239 Ukrainian drones had been shot down overnight.

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