Ukraine Starts Cracking Open the Occupied Territories
Peter Zeihan
4 min
Russian authorities have suspended all fuel purchases for all civilians whether it's personal cars or businesses. The Russian position across the entire southern parts of the occupied territories is really falling apart.
Chapters
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Fuel Supply Cut in Crimea
Russian authorities suspended all civilian fuel purchases in occupied Crimea due to drone attacks on supply lines. Ukrainian drones are systematically damaging rail bridges and roads, cutting off supply routes to occupied territories. Attacks are expanding from Crimea to other occupied regions like Kherson, Nikopol, and Dnipro. The sea link to southern occupied territories has been effectively cut by Ukrainian actions.
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2:31
Strategic Shift in the Region
The balance of forces in the entire southern region is now shifting against Russian control.
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3:42
Unjammable Drone Threat
Russian defenses cannot counter Ukrainian memory drones that are capable of selecting their own targets. The Russian position across the entire southern parts of the occupied territories is really falling apart.
Key points
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Russian authorities have suspended all fuel purchases for all civilians whether it's personal cars or businesses.
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The Ukrainians have now deployed enough drones reliably enough that can target things like fuel trucks.
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The rail bridges have now been damaged or truck and now the Ukrainians are patrolling with dozens of drones at a time over the territory.
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Most of these attacks are coming from places like Kherson, which are just on the other side of the Dnipro River.
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The sea link has already effectively been cut.
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The balance of forces in this entire region is now shift.
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There's still a lot of ways where this can go horribly, horribly wrong. But the Russians have yet to come up with a way to counter the Ukrainian memory drones that are capable of selecting their own targets.
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The Russian position across the entire southern parts of the occupied territories is really falling apart.
On the map
Who and where
Places · 14
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea 7
- Russia 8
- Donetsk Oblast 3
- Dnipro 3
- Crimea 1
- Luhansk Oblast 1
- Mariupol 1
- Melitopol 1
- Kherson 1
- Ukraine 1
- Nikopol 1
- Crimean Bridge 1
- Sea of Azov 1
- Georgia 1
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