Here's what you need to know. Crimea, autonomous republic, southern ukraine. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it.
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After ukrainian independence in 1991, most of the peninsula was reorganised as the autonomous republic of crimea. The soviet fleet in crimea was in contention, but a 1997 treaty allowed russia. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, as the soviet union disintegrated, many tatars resettled in crimea, their numbers swelling from some 38,000 in 1989 to roughly 300,000 at the turn of the.
The republic is coterminous with the crimean peninsula, lying between the black sea and the sea of azov.
The republic of crimea[b] is a republic of russia, comprising most of the crimean peninsula, but excluding sevastopol. Crimea, which juts out into the black sea off southern ukraine, was absorbed into the russian empire along with most ethnic ukrainian territory by catherine the great in the 18th century. Soviet leader nikita khrushchev transferred crimea from russia to ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the ussr, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the unification of. It has been 11 years since russia took control of crimea but moscow's invasion of ukraine has put the peninsula back in the global spotlight.
Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. So why is crimea so important to both sides and what role does it play in the war?
