Ukraine ruins Crimean summer

Cars queuing for fuel at a gas station after authorities restricted fuel sales amid a supply shortage following Ukrainian attacks on logistics routes in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Black Sea resort city of Yevpatoriya, Crimea. — Reuters

UKRAINE is using its expanding fleet of attack drones to choke vital supply routes into Crimea, causing gasoline shortages and disrupting the summer holiday season as the Ukrainians try to cut the peninsula off entirely from Russia.

When Moscow illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, its precarious geographical position, physically detached from Russia proper, posed a raft of challenges.