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Ukraine Pounds Russian Ships in Its Campaign to Cut Off Crimea

After striking roads and railways, Kyiv is now focusing on sea routes as it tries to disrupt fuel supplies and pressure Russia to end the war.

© Commander of Unmanned Aerial Systems Force, via Reuters

A screenshot taken from footage provided by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces showed a drone flying toward a ship at port in the city of Kerch in Crimea in early July.
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Poland Sentences Russian Exile to 7 Years in Prison for Spying

Igor Rogov, who has publicly opposed the Kremlin, was arrested in 2024 and later confessed to spying for Russian intelligence on regime opponents living abroad.

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Igor Rogov in the Polish Parliament building.
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Long Lines for Gas Shatter the Illusion of Normalcy in Wartime Russia

“Are we in the Soviet Union now?” asked one Russian, stunned and frustrated by the waits at the pumps.

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Lines at a gas station in Moscow on Tuesday. Attacks on Russian oil infrastructure have caused the kinds of gas shortages that many Russian citizens have not seen in their lifetimes.
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Four Reasons Crimea Has Become Crucial in the Ukraine War

Escalating drone strikes, fuel shortages and power cuts in the region Russia annexed are among the factors turning up the heat on President Vladimir V. Putin.

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Yevpatoriya, Crimea, last month. The Black Sea region, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, has become a flashpoint in the war.
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