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No Gas, No Summer Camps, Sporadic Power: Ukraine Escalates Crimea Attacks

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To pressure Moscow, Ukraine is stepping up an air campaign to isolate the peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. A line for gas in Simferopol, Crimea, this month. Associated Press By Paul Sonne and Oleg Matsnev By Paul Sonne and Oleg Matsnev Paul Sonne reported from Berlin.  The New York Times , June 22, 2026 Updated 1:30 p.m. ET original article contains links Summer camps are being canceled and evacuated. Gas is nowhere to be found. People are fleeing. And now the electricity is flickering out. Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, is reeling from an air campaign that Kyiv has escalated more than four years into a war that remains largely stalemated on the front lines. The situation has added a new pressure point for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as advances in Ukrainian drone and missile production enable Kyiv to launch bigger attacks that can more easily overwhelm Russian air defenses farther away from the front. Ukrainian offic...
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Bitter Historical Feud Threatens Ukraine-Poland Alliance

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine signed a decree honoring World War II partisan fighters that has inflamed tensions with Warsaw. President Karol Nawrocki of Poland and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in December in Warsaw. Credit... Omar Marques/Getty Images By Maria Varenikova Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine June 21, 2026   Updated 2:07 p.m. ET;  see also  The Washington Post ,"Polish president strips Zelensky of honor after special forces unit’s renaming" (June 20) The two neighbors wholeheartedly support allying with the West and cooperating closely on military affairs, and are fully in agreement today in opposing Russian expansionism. But history gets in the way. Tensions between Poland and Ukraine escalated sharply on Saturday over a rancorous dispute over the commemoration of World War II-era figures. Poland’s president, Karol Nawrocki, said he would revoke his country’s highest state award, which was given to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukrain...
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UKRAINE CONTINUES EFFORTS TO ISOLATE CRIMEA

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 From Quora Another Point of View ·  Following Posted by  Brent Cooper   6h ; see also UKRAINE CONTINUES EFFORTS TO ISOLATE CRIMEA For the last few weeks Ukraine has been isolating Crimea. And in turn isolating the troops in Southern Ukraine who are being supplied from Crimea. On Saturday, Ukrainian military conducted a series of strikes. These strikes were aimed at Russian military logistics and Russian military operations.. A primary target was a bridge over the Henichesk Strait. This bridge represents a primary route used by Russia to supply its military in southern Ukraine from Russian occupied Crimea. This is the fifth bridge from Crimea to the mainland that has been hit recently. Because the front lines are close to the bridges, the bridges are easy targets. In addition to the bridge, other military targets were his as well. . These strikes include a hit a Pantsir-S anti-aircraft system in the Zaporizhzhia region. In addition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) co...
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