This choice was not accidental ... Pogodin concludes ... 1952 ... The Maidan uprising, the collapse of the Yanukovych government, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the war in Donbas unfolded within a security architecture already strained to the breaking point.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in annexed Crimea for the duration of Russia’s war in Ukraine as a security measure, the peninsula’s Moscow-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov said Tuesday ... Crimea , Internet.
After talking to Ukrainians, they realized that the same narratives and methods — including paid protests — had been used in Ukraine by Russia in 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea and supported pro-Kremlin candidates, and anti-Western demonstrations.
SBU officials said Gladius had called at Sevastopol at least seven times prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion, exporting agricultural products from Crimea in violation of Ukrainian law.