Ukraine Starts Cracking Open the Occupied Territories || June 23, 2026
Russia's logistical nightmare in Crimea is just beginning. With Ukrainian strikes ramping up throughout Russian-held Crimea, Russian authorities have suspended civilian fuel sales since new shipments can't reach the peninsula.
Since many of you have asked, the Kerch Strait Bridge primarily remains open to allow civilians to leave Crimea for Russia. However, Ukraine's broader strategy for Crimea is to systematically destroy the infrastructure needed to supply it. And with the new drone supplies and capabilities, this is very plausible.
Much of the territory Russia has occupied since 2014 has become increasingly difficult to supply, and without effective countermeasures, Russia's strategic position is steadily weakening. This isn't a done deal, but the momentum is shifting in Ukraine's favor.
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Comments (18)
Not sure where to comment about that - I wonder if Russian secret move recently with Kaliningrad region (secret meeting, disabling internet) is a preparation for trying to create Baltic sea blockade, so Iranian scenario. If you are attacking ships - this probably won't trigger any NATO response, but might create constraints for maritime shipping to new NATO members (Sweden and Finland) and Baltic states
My wife’s entire family fighting in Ukraine 🇺🇦 people don’t hear the real truth. Believe me.💪🏻
Update: Mass departures from Crimea have already started, even while trains with clueless Russian summer tourists continue to arrive across the damaged but usable Kerch Strait Bridge. The bridge-approach queue for departing cars has, lately, a three-hour wait for soldiers to check them for bombs. Westbound also has a one-hour wait for the same reason.
More good news. A rarity on here. Thank you!
Maps make it all so much clearer. Thank you!
Agree, great map! I can zoom in on the map in the link and see where Russia is determinedly pushing ahead in Druzhkivka. Also the bridges on route E105 .
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Looks like they've got some cards now.
The bad news is Russia is close to taking the Donbas fortress city of Kostyantynivka. Russia has committed massive resources towards pushing out Ukraine. Also, large-scale forced conscription, literal kidnapping, on the streets of the Russian countryside is underway. Recruitment police are getting bonuses for the catches. Heavily wounded Russian soldiers are being sent to the front again and again. I see three problems that make this war so difficult for Ukraine. The first is massive material support from China for the Russian war effort, with China easily escaping any accountability for it. The other is the timidity on the part of Europeans to join the fight to push back the Russians. Yes, donations of out dated war surplus are nice, but it's no way to win a war. Of course Trump's betrayal goes without saying, but I said it anyway.
It may be wishful thinking, but I'm looking forward to War Crime Trials…, perhaps in Moscow. And will Putin's retirement be a high-rise window, bad tea, or perhaps a Tokarev pressed against his temple?
Trains run by electricity - substations have been bombed, locomotives destroyed
Russia is just too BIG to electrify only a small portion of its railroads.
They triggered a wasp nest
I understand why the Ukrainians are allowing the Kerch Bridge to remain passable for civilians t flee Crimea. It makes sense. But are those Russians in Crimea intelligent enough that they are actually getting the h*** out of there?
From what I've heard, there are still affluent Russians traveling to Crimea for vacations. "Nothing to see here. Everything is fine, just people smoking where they shouldn't be. Enjoy your vacation."
Occupation: A word that means things aren’t going well.
If momentum if shifting in Ukraine favor, Trumps momentum may change in Ukraine favor and we he will take praise for the change in favor of Ukraine
Not likely. He's fully compromised by Putin and Russia.