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Ukraine Puts Key Crimea Supply Highways Under Fire Control Near Chonhar
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Ukrainian forces have established fire control over sections of key highways used by Russia to supply its forces in temporarily occupied Crimea, according to an August 6 assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
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A unit of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces reported establishing fire control over portions of the M-14 and M-18 highways. Those roads run between temporarily occupied Mariupol, in Donetsk region, and Chonhar, in Kherson region, where the unit stated it strikes Russian logistics continuously.
Fire control doesn’t imply that Ukrainian troops have physically taken control of the highways or completely cut off the corridor. It means that Ukrainian forces can strike traffic along the designated routes and are doing so consistently.
The two highways form part of the so-called land corridor to Crimea, which threads through occupied areas of southern Ukraine. The route moves personnel, equipment, ammunition, and fuel between Russia, the occupied parts of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, Kherson region, and the peninsula.
The fire-control claim came alongside further Ukrainian strikes across the southern axis. Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) reported on August 6 that its forces hit two Russian FSB patrol boats in the port of occupied Kerch. The vessels, named "Balaklava" and "Kerch," lay roughly 240 kilometers from the frontline.
The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed the same day that recent strikes had damaged two Russian ground repeater antennas used to control Geran and Gerbera attack drones. Those sites were located in temporarily occupied Zaliznyi Port in the Kherson region and in Olenivka in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukraine's wider campaign against the peninsula is also straining Russian power supplies there. A Crimea-based Telegram channel claimed on August 6 that parts of occupied Feodosia had gone without electricity since July 28 following Ukrainian drone strikes.
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Earlier, on August 1, Ukrainian forces struck the Syvash railway bridge near Chonhar and a second railway bridge near Vladyslavivka. Both carry Russian personnel, ammunition, and equipment between occupied Crimea and Russian-held southern Ukraine.
The same operation hit a storage and maintenance site for Russian naval drones near Chornomorske in the western part of temporarily occupied Crimea. Weeks earlier, on June 23, Ukrainian intelligence units destroyed Russian supply trucks along the Melitopol–Dzhankoi highway, another key stretch of the land corridor.
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