Russians Feel the War’s Hardships

“For more than four years, Vladimir Putin has tried to shield Russians from the hardships of war. But in Crimea, residents and tourists drawn to its sandy beaches are now enduring the conflict’s costs firsthand,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Ukraine has made the Black Sea peninsula that Putin annexed in 2014 a new theater of the war with hundreds of Ukrainian drone attacks each day on Crimean power and fuel facilities, a campaign that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky describes as ‘long-range sanctions.’ Crimea now has regular air-raid alerts, power outages and a gasoline black market with a going rate of as much as $25 a gallon.”

CNBC: Putin details Russia’s fuel shortages after Ukrainian drone strikes.