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Russian officials say Ukraine again strikes drilling rigs Russia seized in Black Sea

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Russian officials in occupied Crimea claimed that on June 26, Ukraine's Armed Forces hit for the second time in a week the oil drilling rigs of Ukraine’s Chornomornaftogaz enterprise, a subsidiary of Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz, Russian state-controlled media TASS reported. The rigs were seized by Russia after the Crimean annexation in 2014.

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