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...
Ukrainian attacks in the area are part of Kyiv’s effort to push down to the Sea of Azov. The area is a major target for Ukraine as pushing deep into the territory would mean breaking Russia’s land-bridge between annexed Crimea and eastern Donetsk. ...
The 19-kilometer (12-mile) Kerch Bridge, on a strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea and an essential link to the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The $3.6 billion bridge, the longest in Europe, is vital to...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops fighting in the Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern Ukraine could receive all the supplies they needed via existing land and sea corridors, after a bridge linking Ru...
MOSCOW — Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops fighting in the Mykolaiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern Ukraine could receive all the supplies they needed via existing land and sea corridors, after a bridge linking Russia to Crimea was ...
Ukraine’s state service of special communications and protection of information says Russian forces have focussed efforts on encircling Kyiv and Kharkiv, the second-biggest city, while aiming to establish a land bridge to Crimea. Kyiv, in the path of a Russian armoured ...
It said two spans of the road bridge had partially collapsed, but that the arch spanning the Kerch Strait, the waterway through which ships travel between the Black Sea and Azov Sea, was not damaged. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian governor of Crimea, said on social media that ...
One potential consequence of Russia's advance is its ability to create a land bridge between eastern Ukraine and the region of Crimea, which Russia officially claimed as its own in March. "It's hard for us to ascribe what the motivation is, but certainly we're closely watching this incur...
This Summit on Ukraine is being convened on the first anniversary of the Russian military operation into Ukraine to secure a land bridge to Crimea which was launched Feb 24, 2022. The Ukraine war has actually been going on since 2014 when the United States staged a coup in Ukraine to overt...