Ukrainian commander predicts full control over Azov coastal route and isolation of Crimea

More than four years since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing almost daily Ukrainian attacks on its oil infrastructure, while Western sanctions have made crude exports more costly as its own attacks on Ukraine continue.

Ukraine continues to attack Sevastopol with drones on Thursday

Russian forces call it the “Novorossiya” route, the crucial main supply line that snakes through the Ukrainian territories under Moscow’s occupation, linking Rostov-on-Don in Russia to Melitopol, Mariupol and Crimea via the Sea of Azov coastline.

Ukraine ​has been intensifying drone strikes on supply lines to the peninsula, which ⁠Russia seized from Kyiv in 2014.