Satellite images reveal Crimea’s deepening energy crisis and risk of full-scale humanitarian disaster as Ukrainian strikes hit the peninsula’s power grid

Three months into Ukraine’s campaign to cut off Crimea’s energy supply, the annexed peninsula is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. Strikes by Ukraine’s armed forces initially disrupted fuel deliveries to the region; over time, they have increasingly left residents without electricity, water, or communications. The toll on the power grid is visible from space: we examined satellite imagery of Crimea at night to gauge the scale of the disaster. By late June, the peninsula’s overall ni...