Crimea, Crimea and Ukraine - What Do We Know?

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For all the grinding progress that russia is making in ukraines east, its gains in the south may come under threat. Herson is a gateway to crimea, and it's the end point of vladimir putin's land bridge from mainland russia through to the annexed peninsula. There will be a day when we will say the same about don bas.

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