A land hall has been established between Crimea and Donbas, in line with Russian state information company RIA Novosti.
In its report, the information company cited the Vice-Premier of Crimea Georgiy Muradov, who’s the Everlasting Consultant of the Republic of Crimea below the President of Russia.
CNN has not been in a position to independently confirm the Russian state media report.
Based on RIA, the hall gives a strategic route connecting Crimea to Mariupol, which is at present surrounded by Russian and Russian-backed separatist troops.
The land hall would enable troops in Crimea to hitch forces with Russian-backed rebels within the self-proclaimed Donetsk Folks’s Republic (DPR), in addition to giving Russian-backed forces entry to key port cities alongside the Sea of Azov.
The RIA report additionally referred to as a “vital route” for connecting Crimea to the steel-making capital of Mariupol and the commercial Donbas area.
