Ukraine sees Crimea, the strategic peninsula illegally annexed by Russia nearly nine years ago, as potentially within its grasp.
With some 40% of the nation’s electric grid knocked offline, Ukrainian authorities have begun helping people in recently liberated parts of the country’s south — where retreating Russian troops wrecked energy facilities —to avoid further straining the faltering power supply. Last month, the municipal government in Kyiv raised the drastic possibility of evacuating the capital if the city’s electrical capability were to break down completely.
While Crimea itself lies out of range of Ukrainian rockets and artillery, essential Russian supply routes — the “land bridge” established when Moscow’s forces seized the southern cities of Mariupol and Melitopol earlier in the war — are newly vulnerable. The peninsula’s canal-borne water supply is also threatened.
Putin-watchers say that the heightened, bordering-on-mystical language the Russian leader uses to characterize Moscow’s attachment to Crimea fuels rage — and calls for vengeance — whenever Russia suffers a setback there.
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