As their offensive on land struggled to make the headway they hoped for in breaking through to the Sea of Azov, and cutting off the Russian land bridge to Crimea, the Ukrainians resorted to putting the annexed peninsula under siege. The Crimea is a bastion for Moscow not just in and ...
If the separatists were to seize a land bridge to Crimea that would be a further loss of more than 250 kilometers (150 miles) of coastline. This would also give them or Russia control over the entire Azov Sea and any offshore oil and gas reserves. This would leave Ukraine with about 4...
It would have to push Russia out of its land bridge to Crimea and stop Russia from annexing large parts of Donetsk and Luhansk. Many experts fear that is beyond Ukraine’s capability. While Ukraine did remarkably well in the first phase of the war, Donbas is very different. To go on ...
The city’s capture would give Moscow an unbroken land bridge from Russia to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. But its resistance has also has taken on symbolic significance during Russia’s invasion, said Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Ukrainian think-tank Penta.On...
Russian forces began to withdraw from the Kyiv region around 30 March, with analysts claiming they are running out of resources and choosing to focus on the south and east of the country - where they could create a land corridor to Crimea - instead of the capital. ...
“Our authorities and those who support them in their militaristic aspirations wanted this war so much — and now it has come to our land. “I would like to ask them: has our life become better? Is this how you understand the well-being and security of our country and its population?
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The failure to subordinate Mariupol has pushed Russian forces to broaden their offensive elsewhere in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Azov Sea port city of 430,000, key to creating a land bridge from Russia to Russian-annexed Crimea, is slowly starving. In the makeshift new maternity ward, each...
Drawing more Russian troops into defending Kherson could shore up Ukraine’s positions elsewhere, particularly further east where Kyiv hopes to sever a land bridge to Crimea that Russian forces hold. Moscow occupied the peninsula in 2014 and has stationed its Black Sea fleet there, which is regul...
south-eastern Ukraine. But the so-called “land bridge” that Russia has created by annexing four regions is difficult to traverse. Rail lines are few and far between, mostly single-track, and must cross bridges over rivers and irrigation canals flowing to Crimea and the Azov and Black Seas...