The governor of the Russian-occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said plans to distribute fuel to private individuals were being postponed because Ukraine’s strikes have prevented new shipments, Reuters reports.

Razvozhayev’s statement that fuel would not be available with prepaid vouchers now coincided with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that Kyiv’s long-term campaign against Russia’s energy sector and its annexed territories was bearing fruit. In Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, fuel purchase restrictions were introduced in May as fuel shortages began to hit the peninsula.

Razvozhayev wrote on the Telegram messaging app that oil tankers were unable to reach Sevastopol, adding that the priority on the 11th of June would be to provide fuel for public transport, emergency services and government vehicles.

He stressed that there is no point in lining up at gas stations on the 11th of June.

Existing fuel coupons will be canceled, and residents will receive new ones.

The fuel shortage in Sevastopol has become more noticeable as Ukraine intensifies strikes on Russian energy industry facilities. Moscow has already been forced to suspend oil refining at the world’s third-largest refinery. Zelensky said in his evening address that medium-range strikes have had particularly good results, and that Ukrainians are now able to strike throughout Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.

Russian authorities reported a fire at the Afipsk oil refinery in the Krasnodar region on the morning of the 11th of June, and indicated that it was caused by falling debris from a drone.

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