{"id":1404291,"date":"2026-06-12T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/road-of-death-how-crimean-residents-found-themselves-trapped-by-occupation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:50:08","slug":"road-of-death-how-crimean-residents-found-themselves-trapped-by-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/road-of-death-how-crimean-residents-found-themselves-trapped-by-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoad of Death\u201d: How Crimean Residents Found Themselves Trapped by Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In temporarily occupied Crimea, two bridges in Armyansk connecting the peninsula to the mainland have been damaged after a nighttime drone attack, causing panic among local residents who are urgently trying to leave but face the dangers of the land route.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uCQopGAKJIk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced<\/a> on the air of the &#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; TV channel by Georgy Tuka, chairman of the board of the &#8220;Narodny Tyl&#8221; charitable foundation.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;People are telling, I don&#8217;t know, their channel subscribers or someone else, that they have actually already packed up and are trying to leave the temporarily occupied peninsula, but they are faced with the problem that they cannot do it because it is dangerous by land,&#8221; the studio guest noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/uCQopGAKJIk?t=54<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/stalingrad-disease-how-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-destroy-enemy-logistics\/\">\u201cStalingrad Disease\u201d: Ukraine Strikes at the Heart of Russian Logistics<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> According to him, the destruction of roads has significantly complicated the exit from the peninsula. Residents of Crimea are posting videos expressing their confusion because they do not know safe routes. In addition to damage to bridges at the entrance and exit from Armyansk, night explosions were also heard in Sevastopol, Bakhchisarai and Simferopol, where fires broke out and the power went out.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Tuka adds, supporters of the war in Russia are increasingly expressing alarm over the technological superiority of Ukrainian drones, which can block rail traffic in the country. The railway provides about 70 percent of Russian logistics, so stopping it would have extremely serious consequences for the enemy, he reminds.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;They expect and predict that Ukrainians will soon turn their attention to the Russian Railways hub stations, trying to paralyze not just vehicle traffic, but also railway traffic,&#8221; the public figure noted.<\/p>\n<p> He also emphasized that Russian air defense proved incapable of protecting strategic objects from Ukrainian attacks. The destruction of railway junctions can not only undermine the military capabilities of the occupiers, but also cause large-scale difficulties in the daily life of the population in a large territory of the Russian Federation, &#8211; Georgy Tuka is convinced.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/logistical-collapse-how-drones-destroy-the-aggressors-fuel-capabilities\/\">Logistical collapse: how drones destroy the aggressor&#8217;s fuel capabilities<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> As a reminder, the Ukrainian military <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lohistychna-pastka-iak-zsu-perekryly-dorohu-v-krym\/\">is systematically cutting off the occupied Crimea from communication<\/a> , which is provoking a serious crisis in the supply of fuel and food. Due to logistical problems, strict restrictions have been introduced on the peninsula, the transport arteries of the occupiers have been threatened, and the only vulnerable corridor remains the Kerch Bridge.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that the main route by which the Russian army transfers equipment and cargo to occupied Crimea and southern regions of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainski-drony-peretvoryly-holovnu-trasu-rf-do-krymu-na-dorohu-smerti-zmi\/\">has effectively become a &#8220;road of death&#8221;<\/a> due to constant attacks by Ukrainian drones. In recent weeks, the volume of transportation along this route has sharply decreased.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the Chongarsky bridge in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region suffered critical damage after the strikes and <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/chonharskyy-mist-vyvedenyy-z-ladu-okupanty-vtratyly-vazhlyvyy-marshrut-do-krymu\/\">is now completely unusable for traffic<\/a> . After the loss of this route, the Russian troops began to look for alternative supply routes, in particular, they reoriented logistics through Armyansk. However, the Ukrainian military tracked these changes and launched strikes along the new routes.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In temporarily occupied Crimea, two bridges in Armyansk connecting the peninsula to the mainland have been damaged after a nighttime drone attack, causing panic among local residents who are urgently trying to leave but face the dangers of the land route. This was announced on the air of the &#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; TV channel by Georgy Tuka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1404240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1404291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1404240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}