Russian troops are reinforcing their position in Crimea in anticipation of attacks from Ukraine, a Russia-installed regional official admitted.
“Fortification works aimed at guaranteeing Crimeans’ security are being conducted under my supervision,” Russia’s regional governor of the annexed peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, said Friday.The prospect of a showdown over Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in the clandestine operation that began the war, has loomed into view due to a series of Ukrainian successes in a counteroffensive conducted this fall.
“The limited number of high-quality roads and railways in this area, particularly connecting Crimea to the mainland, creates potential bottlenecks that could be vulnerable to Ukrainian interdiction efforts that would gradually degrade the Russian ability to continue supplying its grouping in eastern Kherson Oblast and other areas of southern Ukraine,” the Institute for the Study of War wrote in a Thursday evening overview of battlefield developments.
“When Ukrainians clean up Kherson on the right bank, they will be able to pull the HIMARS there and destroy Russian logistics and fortifications closer to the Crimean Peninsula," retired U.S. Army Gen. Ben Hodges said in a recent interview with Ukrainian media republished by the War Translated project. “Crimea — is the prize. And I believe that Crimea will be liberated by the end of next summer. By that time, Ukrainians will push back Russian forces and destroy Russian logistics.
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