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Kyiv, recently armed with deep-strike missiles, seeks to degrade Russian functions on the peninsula, airfields, air defenses and logistics centers.
By Marc Santora
Reporting from Odessa, Ukraine
In the transparent evening sky over the coast of Odessa, the faint glow of missiles crosses the Black Sea.
For much of the war it was one-way traffic, with Russia occupying the Crimean peninsula first as a launching pad for its full-scale invasion and then as a launching point for the air travel of its bombing regime.
Ukraine, now armed with U. S. -made precision missiles, is capable for the first time of succeeding in every corner of Crimea, and missiles are flying in both directions.
It’s a strategic development as Kyiv seeks to raise prices for Russian occupation forces that have long used the peninsula as a base of operations off Ukraine’s southern coast.
While unlikely to have much effect on the front line, Ukraine’s crusade with the long-range edition of the army’s tactical missile systems, known as ATACMS, appears to be aimed at forcing the Kremlin to make potentially complicated choices about where to deploy some of its maximum power. missiles. valuable air defenses to critical military infrastructures.
At the NATO summit in Washington last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Crimean crusade would have limited effect as long as Moscow can move its bombers to protect air bases in central Russia. He suggested the Biden leadership lift restrictions so kyiv can expand its movements deep into Russia.
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