evidence: That act of hybrid Russian aggression against Ukraine focused on the small, but strategically-important island of Tuzla, located in the middle of the Kerch Strait between the Black and Azov Seas. The island was formed in 1925 after a severe storm eroded the narrow spit of land that extended into the strait from the Taman Peninsula on its eastern side. Soviet authorities ruled that the island of Tuzla belonged to the Crimean oblast, which became part of the Ukrainian SSR in1954. After Ukraine declared its independence, the island, along with all of Crimea, became an integral part of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Then, on September 29, 2003, without any warning, Russia began constructing a causeway to Tuzla to connect the island to the Russian shore. The entire arsenal of Russian state propaganda was launched against Ukraine and its government on the international arena, claiming that Tuzla is not legally an island, and that it is supposedly "Russian" territory that "has never been part of Crimea, and therefore did not form part of Ukraine in 1991." [...] Today, the Ukrainian island of Tuzla remains occupied by Russia. The Russian invaders used its territory to build the illegal Crimean bridge in 2018, which firmly "bound" occupied Crimea to the Russian Federation, and today serves as the Russian occupational army’s main supply line into Ukraine.