Largely dependent on sustained Western military aid to Ukraine, Kyiv is now facing two potential ways the war with Russia will develop in 2024 and beyond, Yevhen Dykyi, a veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian war and former company commander with the Aidar battalion, said in an interview with NV Radio on Jan. 7.
The bridges to Crimea in Chonhar have been mined since 2014, but they were not blown up at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The bridge from Henichesk to Arabat Spit was partially blown up, and the bridges across the Dnipro River in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka were not mined at all.
Russian and Ukrainian communists who in 1919 mapped out the border between Ukraine and Russia took as their starting point the former Russian empire’s provincial boundaries.