Putin's war machine choked as Ukraine brings 'highway to hell' to huge standstill

Ukraine has claimed a major breakthrough in its campaign to choke Vladimir Putin’s war machine by bringing huge stretches of the Kremlin’s key supply route to occupied Crimea under what it calls “fire control”. Kyiv’s military intelligence agency GUR said its drone operators now dominate sections of the so-called Crimea-Donetsk corridor – a strategic highway used to move fuel, ammunition and military supplies from Russia through occupied southern Ukraine to the annexed Black Sea peninsula.

The route, known to Russia as the R-280 Novorossiya link, has become a graveyard of burned-out fuel tankers, military trucks and logistics vehicles after weeks of relentless drone attacks. Video released by Ukraine’s GUR showed Russian fuel trucks and military transport erupting into flames on the “highway to hell”. “Sections of the highway between the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, Melitopol and Dzhankoy are under fire control of Ukrainian military intelligence operators,” the agency said.

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