ODESA, Ukraine (Tribune News Service) — Beneath a chill, low-lying fog, the Black Sea has gone winter-gray. Even so, the fate of the peninsula, home to 2.4 million people, is increasingly part of the wartime discourse. “Kherson changed things,” said Alexander Babich, a Ukrainian local historian in the Black Sea port of Odesa. Ukraine is already using newly recaptured areas in the south as a staging ground to harry Russian troops. Zelenskyy’s government, meanwhile, reminds citizens in ways large and small that Ukraine has never stopped considering Crimea its own.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 22, 2022 19:45 UTC