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Crimea autonomous republic southern Ukraine The republic is coterminous with the Crimean Peninsula lying between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov In 2014 Russia covertly

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Crimea s unique location makes it a strategically important asset and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it The peninsula was home to Turkic speaking Tatars when the Russian empire

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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

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Ahead of its full scale invasion Moscow deployed troops and weapons to Crimea allowing Russian forces to quickly seize large parts of southern Ukraine early in the war

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Occupied Crimea came under a series of drone and missile attacks on the evening of December 13 with explosions reported across the peninsula for about two hours

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Crimea s unique location makes it a strategically important asset and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it The peninsula was home to Turkic speaking Tatars when the Russian empire

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Stay informed with the latest news video live updates and expert analysis about Crimea from across the BBC

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Russia has spent centuries fighting for Crimea It was transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev when both were part of the USSR

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The names of the Crimean annexation vary In Ukraine the annexation is known as the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia Ukrainian