Russia’s occupation authorities in Crimea just declared a state of emergency, and the reason is simple: Ukraine is turning Crimea into a logistics nightmare. Crimea is roughly the size of Massachusetts, or about the size of a small European country like Belgium. Keeping that much territory supplied through a handful of bridges, roads, rail lines, ports, and fuel depots is hard enough. It gets a lot harder when Ukraine keeps hitting the infrastructure that makes Crimea function. In this video, I break down how Ukraine is disrupting fuel, power, transportation, and Russian military logistics across Crimea, and why this matters far beyond gas lines and blackouts. Ukraine may not be trying to retake Crimea tomorrow. But it is making Crimea expensive, unstable, difficult to supply, and increasingly useless as a Russian military platform.

Source: Crimea Was Supposed to Be Russia’s Prize. Now It’s a Liability