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Amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian SSR seceded from the Soviet Union and Ukraine continued to exercise sovereignty over the territory as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Russia did not dispute the Ukrainian administration of Crimea for just over two decades, but retracted this stance on 18 March 2014, when ...
Newly independent Ukraine maintained Crimea's autonomous status, [68] while the Supreme Council of Crimea affirmed the peninsula's "sovereignty" as a part of Ukraine. [69] [70] The confrontation between the government of Ukraine and Crimea deteriorated between 1992 and 1995. In May 1992 the regional parliament declared an independent "Crimean ...
Ukrainian checkpoint at Kalanchak, entering Kherson Oblast from Russian-occupied Crimea.. On 16 March 2014, a referendum status of Crimea was held by Russia, where, according to official Russian data, 96.77% of the inhabitants of the (Autonomous) Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol voted for the reunification of the respective territories with the Russian Federation.
Fresh from a day of delivering optimistic prognoses about how Ukraine would fare in the war with Russia despite gloomy news from the front lines, U.S. Secretary of State and amateur musician ...
Russia annexed the region from Ukraine in 2014 but Ukraine has recently been pushing ahead with a counter-offensive, Ukraine’s intelligence directorate telling Ukrainian news site TSN on ...
Firefighters were at the site, he said.Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, has been a frequent target of Ukrainian attacks in the course of the 19-month war.
The Crimean problem (Russian: Проблема Крыма; Ukrainian: Кримська проблема, romanized: Krymska problema) or the Crimean question (Russian: Крымский вопрос; Ukrainian: питання Криму, romanized: pytannia Krymu) is a dispute over the status of Crimea between Ukraine and Russia.
The Crimea Bridge, which connects the peninsula to Russia and is a key supply line for Russian troops in Ukraine, was damaged in an "emergency" situation which killed two people and injured a ...