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On 27 March 2014, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution describing the referendum leading to annexation of Crimea by Russia as illegal. [437] The draft resolution, which was titled "Territorial integrity of Ukraine", was co-sponsored by Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and the US.
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On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1] This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February, [2] [3] laid the foundation for the Russian annexation of Crimea on 18 March 2014.
A poll of the Crimean public in Russian-annexed Crimea was taken by the Ukrainian branch of Germany's biggest market research organization, GfK, on 16–22 January 2015. According to its results: "Eighty-two percent of those polled said they fully supported Crimea's inclusion in Russia, and another 11 percent expressed partial support.
The SBU had started criminal proceedings against the pro-Russian association "People's front Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia" in January 2009. [37] On the 55th anniversary of the transfer of the Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR (on 19 February 2009) some 300 to 500 people took part in rallies to protest against the transfer. [38]
By the time of the 2014 Russian annexation, Crimea had been part of Ukraine for 60 years. Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, said Kyiv had invested some $100 billion into ...
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation: Referendum on the political status of Crimea: 18 March: Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation: Putin and Crimean officials signed the Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia. 26 October: 2011 time zones reform was canceled 2015: 1 January
The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet consists of three bilateral agreements [2] between Russia and Ukraine signed on 28 May 1997 whereby the two countries established two independent national fleets, divided armaments and bases between them, [3] [4] and set forth conditions for basing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.