Ukraine's Drone Campaign Targets Russia's Sevastopol Narrative

Ukrainian drones knocked out power in Sevastopol on June 24, 2026, intensifying a sustained campaign against Russian-occupied Crimea. Each outage undermines Moscow's 2014 annexation justification and signals Kyiv's negotiating position: the peninsula remains non-negotiable. Unable to mount conventional assaults, Ukraine weaponizes infrastructure strikes—visible, disruptive, politically costly for the Kremlin—ahead of any diplomatic talks.