Ukraine strikes bridge to Crimea, Russian officials say Russian officials claimed Thursday that Ukrainian missiles had struck the Chonhar road bridge connecting Russian-occupied Crimea with the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson. Traffic using the Chongar bridge (as Russia spells it) had to be tem...
The Kursk road/rail bridge would have been a prime target as this was a primary arterial logistics route for Russia. However, since that time Russia has secured most of the land bridge from Russia to Crimea and is therefore significantly less reliant on the Kursk bridge for logist...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late Saturday tightening security for the Kerch Bridge and for energy infrastructure between Crimea and Russia. Russia's federal security service, the FSB, was put in charge of the effort, according to a Kremlin statement. The speaker of ...
Crimea’s Kerch Bridge road partially reopened, one day after early morning explosions on it killed two people and injured one, splitting a large part of the road and halting its traffic. “Motor transport on the Crimean Bridge has been restored in reverse mode on the most outer right lane,...
Last July, Russia said two Ukrainian maritime droneshit the Kerch Bridge, a key supply route linking Russia to Crimea, forcing its temporary closure. Unconfirmed reports said a Sea Baby drone was used in that strike. The following month, Ukrainian sea dronesstruck a Russian portand d...
Despite the planned ceasefire, Ukraine says Russian forces are still attempting to encircle the key cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, while aiming to establish a land bridge to Crimea. Around 200,000 people are expected to be evacuated from Mariupol. /Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters ...
For Twitty, Ukraine’s disappointing counteroffensive last summer was a missed opportunity. He noted that “had the Ukrainians breached the obstacle [defensive] belt and cut Russia’s land bridge [to Crimea] over the summer, they would have definitely had ...
This picture taken on October 13, 2022 shows workers restoring damaged parts of the Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to Russia, which was hit by a blast on October 8, 2022. Stringer | Afp | Getty Images "Russian forces operating in southern Ukraine are likely increasing logistical supply flow ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that ratifies an agreement with Belarus to allow foreigners who have received a visa from either country to cross the border of the other without obtaining an additional visa, TASS reported on Friday....
But this is an issue of national sovereignity, and Yanukovitch’s pro-Moscow leanings have gone too far in the eyes of many Ukrainians, {see this article from opendemocracy.net/oD-Russia, from 28 April 2010, by Maria Starozhitskaya, ‘Russia’s fleet in Crimea: what’s the real deal...