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LIVE - War in Ukraine: the Russians want to "increase the pressure in the Donbass", warns Zelensky
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This was a major objective of the “special military operation” launched on February 24: to create terrestrial continuity to connect the separatist areas of eastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014. , the Russian army succeeded in creating this symbolic and highly strategic corridor.
In order to display this success, the pro-Russian forces invited a group of journalists, including the special envoy of
Le Figaro
, to travel this road of about six hundred kilometers from Rostov, in the south of Russia, to Simferopol, in the Crimea. .
A guided trip - and very framed - in "Novorossia" ("new Russia"), this expansionist project of Vladimir Putin to which the war in Ukraine has given new life.
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After Novy Asovsk, the southernmost crossing point between the Russian Federation and the "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR), one of the two pro-Russian entities of Donbass, it takes less than an hour's drive before reaching see the Sea of Azov.
The raking sun of the early morning…
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