00:20A massive fireball, a burning fuel depot, and a smoke cloud so big it's visible from space,
00:27stretching over 60 kilometers. This is Crimea, right now, and Ukraine just hit Russia where it hurts most.
00:36At least four people are dead, 28 injured. That's the toll Russian-installed officials are now confirming
00:42after a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes tore through the Russian-occupied peninsula.
00:48The epicenter? Kirch, the port city sitting Crimea's eastern tip, gateway to the bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia.
00:57And that bridge? Russian authorities shut it down overnight to all traffic.
01:03So what exactly got hit? A major fuel depot in Kirch, now engulfed in flames, pumping black smoke into the
01:10sky.
01:11Just 600 meters away, a second fire broke out at a separate fuel terminal,
01:16one that stores and transfers diesel and heavy fuel oil across the Kirch Strait.
01:21This isn't random. This terminal services the Crimea-Caucasus ferry crossing, a critical supply line for Russian forces.
01:29And it didn't stop there. Across the strait, on actual Russian soil, Port Kavkaz, home to its own fuel terminal
01:37and oil depot, also caught fire.
01:39Two countries' worth of fuel infrastructure burning in one night.
01:43But fuel wasn't the only target. Satellite thermal data picked up heat signatures at the Chonhar Bridge,
01:50already damaged in a strike just over a week earlier.
01:53A fire broke out at a Russian military railway battalion's base in Kirch.
01:58And up on the Azov coast, near Cape Zouk, flames hit a site Russian forces use for air defense, radar
02:05systems, S-300 and S-400 missile batteries.
02:08This wasn't one drone. This was a coordinated sweep. Fuel, rail, bridges and air defense, all in the same night.
02:17And this didn't come out of nowhere. Just the day before, Ukrainian forces say they hit four gas compressive stations
02:24across occupied Crimea.
02:26They also claimed strikes on a bridge over the Henichesk Strait, a fuel truck and a Russian air defense system
02:32in Zaporizhia.
02:33And get this, on the very same day, a drone attack hit an oil refinery in Tumen, Russia.
02:40That's deep in western Siberia, 1,900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
02:46The reach is getting longer. The targets are getting more precise.
02:51On the ground, the pain is already showing. Crimea is in the middle of a fuel shortage.
02:56Sevastopol's governor just canceled the weekend's fuel allocation for private drivers.
03:01Only official services get gas right now.
03:04And it's not just drivers feeling it.
03:06Crimea's tourism industry, which depends on millions of Russian visitors every summer,
03:11is bracing for a season of empty beaches and canceled bookings.
03:15Annexed in 2014, turned into a launch pad for Russia's war,
03:20now Crimea is becoming something else, a target that keeps getting hit.
03:25And if this is the pace of strikes in June, what does Moscow do when the fuel runs out for
03:30good?
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