CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta June 4, 2024 21:41:00
Only strategic, it also holds a symbolic value to russia's vladimir putin. why is that? >> well, i think really two thing. number one, a very practical reason it's held in such high regard is that it provides the only linkage prior to the war, the only linkage from the russian mainland to crimea. that's significant. i would say the second thing is they look at this as a piece of russian technology and engineering that is quite comfortable. i think there's another piece to it as well is that militarily, if russia's going to be successful in terms of their desire to hold crimea, they have to be ...