Drones and Blackouts Inflict a Tense Summer on Russia-Annexed Crimea
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For weeks Ukrainian attacks have caused blackouts and disruptions of basic services: Putin's regime defines it as a "temporary" situation.
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rtl.luDrones and blackouts inflict a tense summer on Russia-annexed Crimea
A Russian air-defence drill or a Ukrainian drone attack? Local Georgy shrugged. "We're already used to it, really ... nothing scares us anymore," he told AFP. Ukraine has heavily targeted the Black Sea territory -- a popular summer retreat despite the four-and-a-half-year war -- escalating a campaign of strikes on fuel and electrical facilities over recent months. But like Georgy, who works in the tourism sector, many in Crimea are simply carry…
"It's all right," Gueorgui says, "coffee by hand and hipster beard. "We're actually used to it, so nothing scares us," says this 31-year-old man, tied up on the parapet of the sea promenade with a friend. "Here, we're sitting, we're drinking a coffee. If there's noises, they're most likely coming from exercises," Gueorgui explains. "He works "in tourism" in Sevastopol, a city that like all Crimea, annexed in 2014, is widely perceived as part of …
In Sevastopol, Yalta or on the road to Kertch, the inhabitants of the annexed peninsula live at the rhythm of the Ukrainian strikes.Electric pannes... Read more In Crimea, the noise of the explosions became the soundtrack of summer appeared first on the Singular.
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