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Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a "golden weapon" to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger ​priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of sanctions.

Ukrainian attacks have caused fuel shortages to spread from Russian-annexed Crimea ​to nearby parts of southern Russia, and even to the capital Moscow, ‌which has previously been spared, residents say.

The Russia-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region was experiencing emergency ​power blackouts on Friday, Russia-installed governor Yevgeny Balitsky ‌was quoted as saying by the Kommersant newspaper.

Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on targets across Russia on ‌Sunday, hitting the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and setting it on fire, and striking a number of vessels, as it steps up attacks on energy infrastructure and other targets.