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Thanks to Ukraine's new strategy, Russia's grip on Crimea is crumbling
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Thanks to Ukraine's new strategy, Russia's grip on Crimea is crumbling

by Casey Michel

The past month has seen an entire string of successes in Ukraine's war against Russia, with both long-range attacks and swarms of drone strikes slowly turning the tide in Kyiv's favor. Few things, though, have been as successful as Ukraine's efforts to isolate the occupied region of Crimea, forcing Russian authorities to declare a state of emergency as Kyiv continues to bombard the peninsula. The successes, however, haven't been only military. In its months-long campaign to strangle Russia’s h

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