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Ukraine Is Cutting Crimea Apart Piece by Piece - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦
Ukraine launched a much larger overnight strike wave into Russian-controlled territory, and the biggest story is what keeps happening in Crimea. Air defense sites, power infrastructure, bridges, fuel storage, trains, and logistics routes are being hit again and again. Russia can still hurt Ukrainian civilians, and it did overnight, but Ukraine is increasingly targeting the systems that allow Russia to hold, supply, and defend occupied Crimea.
0:00 Ukraine’s massive overnight drone strike
1:28 Bridges, fuel, and command posts hit
2:00 Crimea’s power and air defense infrastructure targeted
3:13 Russia’s air defense losses keep growing
5:14 Ukraine keeps hitting Crimea’s power grid
5:41 Russian refineries and gas facilities show damage
6:53 Russia’s overnight strikes on Ukrainian civilians
9:08 Battlefield update and Russian ground gains
12:32 Ukraine keeps cutting bridges and logistics routes
14:49 Today’s Ukrainian shout out
0:00 Ukraine’s massive overnight drone strike
1:28 Bridges, fuel, and command posts hit
2:00 Crimea’s power and air defense infrastructure targeted
3:13 Russia’s air defense losses keep growing
5:14 Ukraine keeps hitting Crimea’s power grid
5:41 Russian refineries and gas facilities show damage
6:53 Russia’s overnight strikes on Ukrainian civilians
9:08 Battlefield update and Russian ground gains
12:32 Ukraine keeps cutting bridges and logistics routes
14:49 Today’s Ukrainian shout out