BBCNEWS Outside Source March 2, 2022 19:18:00
Mariupol, clearly mariupol will be surrounded and reduced in some way and then the russians will get this famous land bridge between crimea and russia proper. the other important strategic aspect of their success to the south is i think if they can secure key road junctions and key parts of the infrastructure they then open the way to be able to push north and potentially if they can push south from places like kharkiv and someone, they run the big chance of being able to catch a significant part of ukraine's armed forces in the eastern part of the country. they essentially end up dividing ukr...