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🧵Southern #Ukrainian Front & key strategic ports, rail/roadways & bridges...
Overview...
#Odesa in the west, #Mariupol in the east, #Crimea in south (w #Sebastopol & #Kerch) and all roads & rails lead to key crossings of the #Dnieper River near #Kherson...
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Overview...
#Odesa in the west, #Mariupol in the east, #Crimea in south (w #Sebastopol & #Kerch) and all roads & rails lead to key crossings of the #Dnieper River near #Kherson...
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Occupied Crimea...
Sebastopol in the SW, home to #Russian #BlackSea Fleet (inc. #Ukraine's fleet taken over in 2014) and Krech in the east.
Both have road and rail to Kherson as well as industrial port facilities.
Kerch controls Straight of Kerch, waterway into #AzovSea
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Sebastopol in the SW, home to #Russian #BlackSea Fleet (inc. #Ukraine's fleet taken over in 2014) and Krech in the east.
Both have road and rail to Kherson as well as industrial port facilities.
Kerch controls Straight of Kerch, waterway into #AzovSea
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#Berdyansk, Mariupol & #Zaporizhzhya
Berdyansk - 2nd Ukrainian indust. port facilities on Sea of Azov after Mariupol
Berdyansk was an offloading facility for Russians to hit rear flank of Ukrainian defenses of Mariupol
Red "escape route" to Zaporizhzhya
Purple -> Kherson
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Berdyansk - 2nd Ukrainian indust. port facilities on Sea of Azov after Mariupol
Berdyansk was an offloading facility for Russians to hit rear flank of Ukrainian defenses of Mariupol
Red "escape route" to Zaporizhzhya
Purple -> Kherson
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