In February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale conventional invasion of Ukraine, aiming to seize a strategic land bridge connecting Crimea and Russia. Ukrainian forces responded with counteroffensive victories, eventually pushing Russian forces back from a significant area. As part of its strategy, Ukraine planned to seize Crimea, targeting the land bridge as the first step towards achieving this goal. The land bridge's removal would cut off Crimea from supplies by land and potentially bring the war closer to termination. If executed simultaneously with destroying the Crimean bridge near Kerch, severing the land bridge would resolve as Yes if Ukrainian territorial control extended continuously from Kyiv to the Russian border between November 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024.