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Fuel trucks have been stuck for days waiting for a ferry to cross the Kerch Strait.
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Personally, I'd think that the RORO ferry, once loaded, would be more vulnerable. Then you've got all of the same flammability issues, but now the ship is also at stake and it's harder to fight fires and move not-yet-burning tanker trucks away from a fire.
EDIT:
https://crimeaports.ru/en/affiliates/kerch-ferry-service
That's also not a whole lot of depth in ferry stock for Russia to be able to afford to lose. It sounds like Ukraine already wiped out Russia's rail ferry capacity to Crimea in the last several months:
https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-knocks-out-russias-last-rail-ferry-slavyanin-supplying-crimea-17733
EDIT2: I guess Russia could also maybe use landing ships to transport fuel trucks onto unimproved shores, if a tractor-trailer can handle sand, but it sounds like Ukraine's been taking them out too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Saratov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Nikolai_Filchenkov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Nikolai_Vilkov
Based in Vladivostok. I don't expect that it can get to Crimea, since Turkey closed the Turkish Straits to warships subsequent to the invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Orsk
Sounds like that one's still in service.