(KYIV) – Ukraine has reached a significant milestone in its campaign to liberate occupied Crimea, effectively cutting off the peninsula from consistent Russian resupply for the first time. The development follows a systematic, months long operation to degrade air defences, destroy storage infrastructure, and sever the limited transport routes that connect Crimea to the outside world. The current pressure campaign rests on three strategic pillars. The first is the relentless targeting of Russian air defence systems. Since the beginning of 2026, Ukraine has destroyed over one hundred different air defence platforms on the peninsula. Russia repeatedly replaces these systems only…