Here's what you need to know. 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. After ukrainian independence in 1991, most of the peninsula was reorganised as the autonomous republic of crimea.
Provides an overview of crimea, ukrainian territory militarily occupied by russia since 2014. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. Crimea, autonomous republic, southern ukraine.
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. The republic is coterminous with the crimean peninsula, lying between the black sea and the sea of azov. Crimea's unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. The soviet fleet in crimea was in contention, but a 1997 treaty allowed.
Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it.