War

A regional state of emergency has been declared in occupied Crimea and Sevastopol because of the energy situation on the peninsula, according to Sergey Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed head of Crimea, and Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor in Sevastopol.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck two Russian military support vessels and air defense assets in the occupied city of Kerch in Crimea, according to its statement.

Ukraine’s SBU Security Service’s Alpha special operations unit carried out successful strikes on Russian air defense systems near the Kerch Strait and on infrastructure at the Saky and Hvardiyske military airfields in occupied Crimea, according to the SBU’s statement.