Here's what you need to know. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. Crimea, autonomous republic, southern ukraine.
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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.
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. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. 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. The republic is coterminous with the crimean peninsula, lying between the black sea and the sea of azov.
