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Ukrainian attacks leave Russian oil infrastructure ablaze, Crimea halts fuel sales

Videos from social media show fiery explosions at a port in the Kerch Strait late at night, with thick smoke surrounding what appear to be oil tanks. 

Emergency services work on a damaged building, after Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram that Russian forces struck the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs on Saturday, in this handout image, with the location given as Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine.
A Russian police officer stands guard at the scene following an overnight explosion at a multi-storey residential building in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 24, 2026.

Russian-held Crimea curbs the use of motorcycles, saying they sound like drones

A Ukrainian serviceman from the special police unit Hyzhak prepares a Gara, a Ukrainian multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence elements, before flying it over positions of Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline in Donetsk.

Drones hit historic museum in Crimea as officials reduce nighttime trains for safety

 The Israeli police pointing towards the inside of a car.

Israel Police chief is right about the crime crisis, wrong to wait for software to fix it - opinion


Russian forces repelled drone attack on Crimea, Russian-installed official says

Local officials said ferries and boats had temporarily stopped crossing the Bay of Sevastopol.

 Russian Navy vessels are anchored in a bay of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea May 8, 2014

Russian state journalist killed by stray bullet at Crimea base

Svetlana Babayeva was head of the Rossiya Segodnya media group's bureau in Simferopol.

A view shows a Russian military base in Sevastopol, Crimea, July 5, 2016.

Russia tells people in occupied Kherson to 'save your lives' and leave

Russia's proxies in the southern region are trying to evacuate up to 60,000 people who live on the western bank of the Dnipro river.

 Civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson walk from a ferry to board a bus heading to Crimea, in the town of Oleshky, Kherson region, Russian-controlled Ukraine October 23, 2022.

Elon Musk's tweet on Crimea is all wrong - opinion

Elon Musk tweeted at the beginning of October that "Crimea is formally part of Russia" and he could not be more wrong.

 Elon Musk's assertion that Crimea is 'formally part of Russia as it has been since 1783,' is totally wrong, says the writer.

The IRGC in Crimea? The Russia-Iran model for Syria moves to Ukraine - analysis

The Iranians reportedly went to Ukraine to aid Russia’s war effort and help with technical issues relating to the drones. They help the Russians learn to fly the drones.

Members of a special IRGC force attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2022.

Three killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv residential building

Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president's staff, said the attacks were carried out with so-called suicide drones.

 A driver walks near his burned car after Russian military strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in central Kyiv, Ukraine

Russia arrests 8 for Crimea Bridge blast as Ukraine celebrates

Ukraine has not officially confirmed its involvement in the blast that destroyed a section of the bridge to Russian annexed Crimea , but some Ukrainian officials have celebrated the damage.

 A view shows a fire on the Kerch bridge at sunrise in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022.

Huge explosion rocks Russian bridge leading into Crimea, 3 dead

An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, called the explosion a "beginning" - but did not directly claim Ukrainian responsibility.

 A helicopter drops water to extinguish fuel tanks ablaze on the Kerch bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea

Russian military plane mysteriously ignites in Crimean air field

Videos and images showing a massive black cloud of smoke billowing into the sky as a backdrop to a Crimean beach spread quickly on social media.

 A view shows a Russian airforce plane at the Belbek airport near Sevastopol, Crimea

Putin complains of Western aggression, tragic fall of USSR during speech

Moscow, Putin stressed, will defend its new territories "with all available forces and means," and that the West has no moral right to challenge the results of the referenda.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Vladimir Saldo, Yevgeny Balitsky, who are the Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, attend a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories