REFERENCE: Point 1 - The Selling Of Crimea (Part II)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Soviet_Union

The transfer of the Crimean oblast in the Soviet Union in 1954 was an administrative action of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that transferred the government of Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

He supported Joseph Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the Ukrainian SSR, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War, Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea

In 2014 after Russian annexation of Crimea new authorities conducted a census. According to the census result the population of the Crimean Federal District is 2.2844 million people. The ethnic composition is as follows: Russians: 1.49 million (65.3%), Ukrainians: 0.35 million (15.1%), Crimean Tatars: 0.24 million (12.0%). Official Ukrainian authorities and Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People claimed doubts that the results of population census in Crimea represent the facts. A survey in May 2013, asked respondents what language they spoke at home: 82% Russian, 10% Crimean Tatar, 3% Russian and Ukrainian equally, 3% Russian and another language equally, 2% Ukrainian. Note that the proportion of people in the survey who gave their ethnicity as Ukrainian was 20%, Crimean Tatar 15%.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation

On 27 February, unmarked Russian forces with nationalist paramilitaries took over the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, with Russian special forces seizing the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea and the building of the Council of Ministers in Simferopol. Russian flags were raised over these buildings and barricades were erected outside them. Pro-Russian forces also occupied several localities in Kherson Oblast on the Arabat Spit, which is geographically a part of Crimea.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_the_Ukrainian_Army

In the early 1960's, Ukraine developed and built the T-64 tank which is the most numerous tank Ukraine has today and was manufactured in Kharkiv ... The Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau abbreviated KMDB, a Ukrainian state-owned company in Kharkiv, Ukraine, designed armoured vehicles, including the T-80UD and T-84 main battle tanks. The T-84 entered service with the Military of Ukraine in 1999, and the more advanced Oplot version in 2001.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukraine)

The 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the unit is 30th Independent Mechanized Brigade "Konstanty Ostrogski". Following the 2014 war in Donbas, the unit dropped all its Soviet decorations.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-has-exactly-one-t-80uk-command-tank-it-just-fought-a-dangerous-solo-battle-near-bakhmut/ar-AA17gn0D?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fbab943a1685484cc3a3a0729c28099f

The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a former Soviet formation that, for 23 years following the fall of the Soviet Union, provided much of the new Ukrainian army’s heavy firepower. When Russian forces invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula back in 2014, the 30th was one of the few brigades that Kyiv could count on to stand and fight. In early 2014, the brigade held positions just north of Crimea in order to deter further Russian advances. When Russian-backed separatists attacked in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region later that year, the 30th rolled east to engage them.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)

There were 29 failed ceasefires. About 14,000 people were killed in the war: 6,500 Russian and Russian proxy forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,400 civilians on both sides of the frontline. The vast majority of civilian casualties were in the first year.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_campaign

The Crimea campaign was an eight-month-long campaign by Axis forces to conquer the Crimean Peninsula, and was the scene of some of the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front during World War II.[citation needed] The German, Romanian, and defending Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties as the Axis forces tried to advance through the Isthmus of Perekop linking the Crimean peninsula to the mainland at Perekop, from summer of 1941 through to the first half of 1942.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_offensive

The Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of Army Group A, which consisted of Wehrmacht and Romanian formations. The battles ended with the evacuation of the Crimea by the Germans. German and Romanian forces suffered considerable losses during the evacuation.

 

https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/08/09/russias-occupation-of-crimea-led-to-ukraine-losing-75-of-its-2013-gdp/

Ukraine’s economic losses from the Russian Federation’s temporary occupation of the Crimean peninsula amounted to at least $135 billion, or 75% worth of Ukraine’s GDP in 2013, a study by the Center for Economic Strategy (CES) states.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-invasion-ukraine-caused-over-97-bln-damages-report-2022-09-09/

Arup Banerji, World Bank regional country director for Eastern Europe, said the findings were based on a "very strong" internationally accepted methodology, and should underpin a Group of Seven recovery conference planned in Berlin on Oct. 25. He said Ukraine's initial estimates that it would cost $750 billion to rebuild its economy were likely extrapolations from the damage and economic losses, but it was unclear what exact methodology had been used to arrive at that estimate, he said.

 

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