Ukraine Blasts Crimean Oil Refinery — a Not-So-Subtle Message to Putin on His Birthday
The country’s security service set off a truck bomb on the $4 billion road and rail bridge that Putin commissioned to unite continental Russia with occupied Crimea.
Ukraine delivered a birthday present to President Putin this morning — blowing up the largest oil refinery and depot in Crimea. Mr. Putin’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula is the signature achievement of his near 25-year-long rule, a message to his people and to the world that Russia is back as a superpower.
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