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Eintrag vom: 04.09.2013.

Panic in Russia as residents sell up and flee war torn island loved by Putin The peninsula has always been a favourite holiday destination for Russians - both during the Soviet period and after ...

 

Russian authorities suspended train service for Crimea after a Ukrainian drone knocked out a locomotive further squeezing commerce to the occupied Black Sea peninsula struggling with fuel shortages.

 

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 invaded and illegally annexed Crimea a move that was denounced by the international community.

 

After Ukrainian independence in 1991 most of the peninsula was reorganised as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Soviet fleet in Crimea was in contention but a 1997 treaty allowed Russia to continue basing its fleet in Sevastopol.