 Ukraine Army hampering Russia's plan to build highway from Rostov region to Crimea. The efforts undertaken by the armed forces of Ukraine and the lack of manpower prevent the invasion force from building a motorway that would connect Russia's Rostov region and temporarily occupied Crimea via a land corridor. This was stated by the Chief of the Ukrainian Institute of Strategic Research and Security Think Tank Pavlo Lyciansky, who partook at the presentation of a report on Russia's plans for the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine. When repair works are underway, along motorways, there is no full-scale construction as of today because they are distracted by the actions of Ukraine's armed forces, Lyciansky noted. According to the expert, Russia is facing a catastrophic shortage of road construction workers. They say 140 million people live in Russia, but the country is very large in terms of territory, so they just don't have enough people who can do this job. They have a population deficit of 6 to 8 million in Russia, and today there is a shortage of workers in the occupied territories. Constructing that road remains only a plan, he added.