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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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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 Here s what you need to know

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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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Kyiv is forcing Moscow to choose whether to devote air defense resources to defending the Russian homeland or occupied Crimea

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Crimea the contested peninsular region of southern Ukraine has long changed hands between empires Since the 1990s Russians and Ukrainians have fought for control over the land

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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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Crimea formerly known as the Tauric Peninsula is a peninsula in Eastern Europe surrounded by the northern coast of Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Simferopol is the capital city of the Crimea

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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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