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Ukrainian Drones Are Hunting Russia’s Land Bridge to Crimea
Moscow hardened Crimea’s supply lines against another Kerch Bridge strike. Cheap long-range drones are turning that redundancy into exposure.
Read the Analysis →IMAGE //A Ukrainian strike drone runs on a Russian truck convoy along the Melitopol-Berdiansk highway, a segment of the land corridor to Crimea, May 22, 2026. Source: Ukrainian operational footage via Special Kherson Cat.
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The Magazine Math
The Iran campaign did not empty the Pacific arsenal. It emptied the shelf slowest to restock, and the plan to refill it from another direction runs through a supply line Beijing can shut.
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