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Accession of Crimea to Russia

Crimean Crisis
Annexation of Crimea
Part of the Ukrainian crisis, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Crimea crisis map (alternate color for Russia).PNG
Date 20 February 2014 – 19 March 2014 (24 days)
Location Crimea
Result
Belligerents
 Russia  Ukraine
Strength

Protesters

Volunteer units

  • 5,000 (Sevastopol)
  • 1,700 (Simferopol)

Russian military forces

  • 20,000–30,000 troops

Ukrainian Armed Forces defectors

  • 12,000

Protesters

  • 4,000–10,000 (Simferopol)

Ukrainian military forces

  • 5,000–22,000 troops
  • 40,000 reservists, partly mobilised (outside Crimea)
Casualties and losses
1 Crimean SDF trooper killed

2 soldiers killed,

60–80 detained
3 civilian deaths (2 pro-Russian and 1 pro-Ukrainian)

Protesters

Volunteer units

Russian military forces

Ukrainian Armed Forces defectors

Protesters

Ukrainian military forces

2 soldiers killed,

The Ukrainian territory of Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation in early 2014. Since then, the peninsula has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, which, until 2016, were grouped in the Crimean Federal District. The annexation was accompanied by a military intervention by Russia in Crimea, which took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine.

On 22–23 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin convened an all-night meeting with security services chiefs to discuss extrication of the deposed Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and at the end of that meeting Putin had remarked that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia." On 23 February 2014, pro-Russian demonstrations were held in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. On 27 February masked Russian troops without insignia took over the Supreme Council (parliament) of Crimea, and captured strategic sites across Crimea, which led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea, conducting the Crimean status referendum and the declaration of Crimea's independence on 16 March 2014. Russia claimed Crimea on 18 March 2014.


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