Children’s camps in Crimea stop accepting new arrivals, campers being evacuated from Artek

Kremlin-backed authorities in Crimea announced Monday a total ban on organized children’s vacation groups for the remainder of the summer, as the annexed peninsula grapples with intensifying Ukrainian attacks and acute fuel shortages.

Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, is reeling from an air campaign that Kyiv has escalated more than four years into a war that remains largely stalemated on the front lines.