Ukraine has spent the week methodically unplugging the fuel lines that feed Russia and occupied Crimea — by its own drone commander's count, 19 tankers, a cargo ship and a ferry hit in three nights. The peninsula is feeling it. Al Jazeera's report carries the detail that matters: "In Sevastopol, fuel has stopped being sold to civilians." Not rationed. Stopped. More than a dozen Crimean districts are sitting through blackouts. * Over at RT — Russia's state broadcaster — the same week produced this headline: "Russian deputy PM names reason behind fuel shortages." A mystery, solved by a deputy prime minister. And the reason he names? Refineries temporarily offline for repairs after drone strikes. Repairs. Your kitchen is also "being renovated" after a grease fire. * To be scrupulously fair: RT does say who caused the repairs — Ukrainian drones. The cause is admitted. It's the scale that's gone missing. Deputy PM Novak's fullest concession, as RT quotes him: "there are problems and there is a deficit... which is why we are seeing lines." Problems. Deficit. Lines. Three nouns in single file, quietly walking past the word crisis. * Days earlier, RT gave Putin the top slot for the thesis statement: "Ukraine cannot destabilize Russia through energy attacks." Russia's energy system, he said, has "one of the highest resilience margins in the world." Which may even be true — but a city where the pumps won't sell to civilians at all is a strange place to measure it from. * Read RT's version and you get an inconvenience: some lines, some repairs, officials on it. Read Al Jazeera's and you get a campaign: shadow-fleet tankers supplying Crimea struck at sea, and — for the first time — a hit on Omsk, Russia's biggest refinery, 2,500 kilometers from the border. Same week. Same fuel. * One of these newsrooms is owned by the government whose gas stations are closing, and it shows exactly where you'd expect it to show — not in the facts it denies, but in the ones it shrinks.