As attacks increase on the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine may be edging closer to a full-scale attempt to reclaim the region.
to stay in Crimea, they will have to leave," Spencer said."Like we have already seen, Ukraine can do this with attacks by resistance forces, special forces and through long-range fires."
The RAND engineer said that once Zelensky's troops go in for an invasion, a"key issue" wouldn't be that"Russia has been ensconced in Crimea for nearly a decade, but that Crimea's geography makes it hard to conquer." Silbey also described an attempt to regain the region as a tough mission but said it would begin with Ukraine having"to get to the neck of the Crimea through Russia's defenders first and then fight across a very narrow strip of land connecting it to the mainland."
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