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Perceptions of Crimea may differ within the country, but overall, there is a deep-seated sense that regaining Crimea, along with the Donbas, is necessary for Ukraine's future, Nilsson told Newsweek.

For Kyiv, Crimea had been a strategic asset, too. By the time Russia annexed it in 2014, it had been a part of Ukraine for 60 years and had become part of the country’s identity.

In 1991, Crimea went with the rest of Ukraine into a new era of independence. "Legally, everything was done absolutely correctly," Ignatov said of the Khrushchev-era transfer of control.

With Ukraine engulfed in turmoil, Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced, sending troops to overrun Crimea, a diamond-shaped peninsula in the Black Sea that Russia has long coveted.

It was in Crimea where the current war in Ukraine began. Starting in February 2014, Russian special operators and Wagner Group mercenaries—the infamous “Little Green Men”—invaded the ...