Those who controls Crimea will win this war – former U.S. Army commander in Europe Ben Hodges

"I don't think there's going to be a ground offensive on the peninsula anytime soon, but that's an outdated way of thinking. I mean, it's important to first make Crimea unsuitable for Russian troops."

“I don’t think there’s going to be a ground offensive on the peninsula anytime soon, but that’s an outdated way of thinking. I mean, it’s important to first make Crimea unsuitable for Russian troops.”

The general believes that the AFU needs to block both ways to get there: the Kerch bridge and the land corridor from Rostov along the Azov coast.