Kyiv has a battle plan to recapture the peninsula but behind the scenes there are serious fears about what would happen next
Last week Mykhailo Podolyak, one of President Zelensky’s main advisers, made it clear that Ukrainian attacks on Crimea would only intensify, because he saw it as crucial to winning the war. When Crimea falls, he predicted, “Russian troops at the front will panic and Moscow’s political rhetoric will change completely.” The fighting talk apart, it is less clear how the peninsula could be liberated, and even whether this would be wise.
