SHORT: Implications Real & Imagined of Crimea Bridge Strike
latest in long campaign by Kiev to deprive Crimea's civilian population of essentials (including water);
together with a possible offensive aimed at Melitopol, seeks to isolate or panic Russian forces in the Kherson-Crimea region;
Ukrainian forces are overextending and expending themselves while majority of Russian forces remain intact and simply waiting for Ukraine to burn itself out;
Ukraine is seeking to rattle Russia politically to preempt the military conclusion of this conflict in Russia's favor.
