Ukrainian strikes on Russian maritime logistics, oil infrastructure, and air defense systems in Crimea and Krasnodar Krai overnight on June 21. The strikes targeted the Port of Kavkaz and TES-Terminal-1 oil depot located in Kerch and used by Russian forces to transport oil across the strait. The Ukrainian attacks also disabled four S-400 air defense complex radar stations and two Pantsir air defense systems on the Kerch Strait Bridge.
Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil and transport infrastructure are already disrupting Russian logistics, straining energy supplies, and worsening fuel shortages across occupied Crimea, the ISW noted.
Following the strikes on June 21, Russian occupational “authorities” announced that all gas stations in occupied Crimea stopped selling fuel to any non-state entities. Russian-installed energy company Krymenergo announced emergency power cuts, citing outages at regional grid facilities.
ISW assessed that the Kerch Strait strikes are part of an ongoing systematic Ukrainian campaign to deny Russian forces the use of supply routes to Crimea via occupied territories in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces Commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi confirmed that Ukrainian forces aredegrading the Kremlin’s ability to use occupied Crimea as a springboard for offensive operations again by destroying Russian air defense systems, reducing the presence of the Black Sea Fleet on the peninsula, and degrading Russian logistics, transportation nodes, and energy resources in the region.
Analysts clarified that Russia has two main supply routes into occupied Crimea: the “land bridge” that runs across occupied Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson oblasts, as well as the bridge and ferry connection across the Kerch Strait. Ukrainian forces have intensified their strikes against both routes.
Ukrainian drones carried out a series of strikes on railway bridges across the North Crimea Canal near occupied Rozdolne (Kherson Oblast) and near Chongar (on the border of Kherson Oblast and Crimea), which Russian forces reportedly used to transport personnel and supplies. Ukrainian forces continue to strike Russian air defense and radar systems to enable further strikes against Russian logistics and energy infrastructure in Crimea.
A combination of continued Ukrainian medium- and long-range drone strikes may further cause additional tactical and operational complications for Russian transport of personnel and equipment along both ground lines of communication (GLOCs) and disrupt Russian fuel deliveries, ISW concluded.
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