This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukraine. In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Donbas, and invaded and annexed Crimea. In 2018, Russia completed a…
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
Ukraine. In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Donbas, and invaded and annexed Crimea. In 2018, Russia completed a bridge over the Kerch Strait, controlling access to the Sea of Azov.
Ukraine and Russia may be on the brink of resuming their war today after a major naval escalation where Russia’s military fired on Ukrainian navy ships in the Black Sea, boarded and seized the ships, and blockaded Ukraine’s ports at the Kerch Strait.
The sequence of events, according to Ukrainian media and mostly confirmed by Russian media, is as follows:
There is no word about how long the blockade will be in place.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s ships appears to be a continuation of the war between Russia and Ukraine that began in 2014. Russia invaded Donbas (eastern Ukraine) and is still occupying it, and then Russia invaded, occupied and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
In the past three years, Russia has built a bridge over the Kerch Strait between Russia and Occupied Crimea and has constantly harassed and blocked hundreds of commercial ships trying to reach Ukrainian ports.
Many observers believe that these steps are all in preparation for a naval assault on Mariupol, Berdyansk, and other Ukrainian ports along the Sea of Azov, with the objective of creating a land bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea and of taking full military control of the entire Sea of Azov.
