back pre 2014, you could drive from Odessa and head east to Mykolaiv, and take the M14 and then follow the E97 down to Oleshky and then head over to Zhankoi in Krim...
it’d actually be kinda hard to know where crimean peninsula started and the Ukrainian mainland ended just from your own observations, it all looked the same to me!!!!
the territory doesn’t match the map....
so ya gotta have a map....
ya just gotta...