Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, speaks with workers visiting the road section of the road-rail bridge linking Crimea to mainland Russia near Kerch, Crimea, on March 14, 2018. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool/AP)The Crimean bridge explosion accelerates the strategic choices Russian President Vladimir Putin must make about Russia’s occupation of southern Ukraine. And now the Kerch Strait bridge, which had become so vital to everything that Russia is trying to hold on to in the south. Over the past week, they have already fallen back over 500 square kilometers (about 193 square miles). One carries the risk of catastrophic collapse, for his entire brutal adventure into Ukraine — and quite possibly, his rule.

Source: CNN October 08, 2022 14:07 UTC