Perspective: Crimea was Putin’s trophy. Ukraine is turning it into a test of command, supply lines and political nerve.

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Kyiv’s campaign of drone strikes has caused a fuel and electricity crisis in the occupied Black Sea peninsula, triggering a state of emergency.

Ukraine has vowed to retake Crimea from Russia, persistently attacking the Black Sea peninsula Moscow seized in 2014.

Energy shortages have continued to plague Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, following repeated, intensified Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula.

Ukraine is engaged in a campaign in Crimea to take out Russian air defenses, sever vital supply lines, and cripple the peninsula's energy grid and fuel reserves.

One person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed officials said in the early hours of Sunday, as Russian and Ukrainian leaders held separate calls with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war, now in its fifth year.

Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-occupied Crimea in particular,

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck 13 vessels belonging to Russia's shadow fleet near occupied Crimea on the night of 9-10 July. Source: Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces Details: Of the 13 vessels struck,