En is Oekraïne daar de aggressor?
On 22–23 February 2014, Russian president
Vladimir Putin convened an all-night meeting with security service chiefs to discuss assisting the deposed Ukrainian president
Viktor Yanukovych with leaving the country. At the end of the meeting, Putin remarked that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia."
[4] On 23 February, pro-Russian demonstrations were held in the Crimean city of
Sevastopol. On 27 February,
masked Russian troops without insignia[41] took over the
Supreme Council (parliament) of Crimea
[42][43] and captured strategic sites across Crimea. This led to the installation of the pro-Russian
Sergey Aksyonov government in Crimea, the
Crimean status referendum and the declaration of
Crimea's independence on 16 March 2014.
[44][45] Russia formally incorporated Crimea as two
Russian federal subjects—the
Republic of Crimea and the
federal city of Sevastopol on 18 March 2014.
[46][47][note 2] Following the annexation, Russia escalated its military presence on the peninsula and leveraged
nuclear threats to solidify the new status quo on the ground.
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