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The 60-mile strip of land is in NATO territory, and is the only land link to the three ex-Soviet Baltic republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - for the West. "A strike force [based in Wagner forces in Belarus] is ready to take this corridor in a matter of hours." The agreement had been set to end today, but Russia had not signalled whether it intended to allow an extension. Hours before Russia confirmed it was ending the deal, blasts were reported on the Kerch Bridge linking Crimea with Russia.
The bridge is one of only two ways for Russia to supply the Crimean peninsula which it occupied in 2014. The other route is the coastal highway on the Sea of Azov that runs through the strip of occupied land that bridges Crimea with the Russian occupied Donbas region in the east of Ukraine. That route is also threated by Ukrainian missile strikes.
For Ukrainians, whose counteroffensive so far appears to have become bogged down in minefields and Russia's network of defences and trenches, the attack will be a morale boost. But it will not alter the fact that its efforts to repel the invader are making very slow progress and the West's efforts to give Kyiv the means to achieve that end have so far been too little too late.
But Ukraine has rarely claimed responsibility for attacks on Crimea or on Russian territory - and there have been hints that things may not be as they seem.
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