MOSCOW, June 26, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea on 
Friday declared an "emergency situation" in a bid to help mitigate the 
fallout from increasing Ukrainian aerial attacks on the peninsula.

"A decision has been made... to sign decrees declaring a regional-level 
emergency situation in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol," 
the Moscow-installed governor Sergey Aksyonov said in a post on Telegram, 
published a day after he announced power outages across Crimea due to the 
attacks.