 Ukraine tries to cut Russia's ties with Crimea. Ukraine is trying to cut Russia's ties with Crimea, said Andriy Cherniak, an official of the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. He emphasized the importance of cutting off the connection between Russia and Crimea and said that work in this direction is being continued. Cherniak said that this is proved by the kilometers-long traffic jams on the bridge in the direction of Russia. In the past few months, with Ukrainian forces continuing to reclaim regions from Russian forces, Western voices have begun revisiting a topic they'd long brushed off, Crimea. Thanks to Putin's full-scale invasion, the myth that Russia has some kind of right to Crimea has effectively collapsed across the West. And the reality has begun seeping in from Washington to London to Brussels that, in terms of military success, Russian suzerainty over Crimea must end before any lasting, stable peace can be found. It's also obvious that Russia's ability to resupply Crimea is becoming tenuous. Of both the Russian land corridor and Crimean bridge, the latter of which was recently bombed, increasingly threatened, and a year into the war, it's now apparent that Russian military assets in Crimea will continue to present an unacceptable threat to Ukraine, regardless of the outcome of the war.