REFERENCE: Reparation Of Appropriated Assets (Part I)

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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/03/17/crimea-six-years-after-illegal-annexation/: March 18 marks the sixth anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Attention now focuses on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Donbas, a conflict that has taken some 14,000 lives, but Moscow’s seizure of Crimea — the biggest land-grab in Europe since World War II — has arguably done as much or more damage to Europe’s post-Cold War security order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Crimea#Government_and_administration: Executive power in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was exercised by the Council of Ministers of Crimea, headed by a Chairman, appointed and dismissed by the Supreme Council of Crimea, with the consent of the President of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_Crimea: On 27 February 2014, during the 2014 Russian aggression against Ukraine, masked gunmen seized the building of the Council of Ministers and members of the Council. Under siege, the Supreme Council of Crimea, chaired by Vladimir Konstantinov, passed a motion of no confidence in the Council of Ministers of Crimea and adopted a resolution to terminate its powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Navy: The headquarters of the Ukrainian Naval Forces was, until the 2014 Crimean crisis, located at Sevastopol in Crimea The naval forces were highly affected by the Crimean crisis, as the majority of their units were stationed there. Ships that did not escape or were not deployed at the time lowered their flags and were interned. Russia began a process of returning the vessels but stopped, citing the inability of Ukraine to retake possession and alleged violence against Russians in the Donbas.The ships that were returned were the older models of the fleet which were deemed obsolete. For example, Russia chose not to return the corvettes Ternopil and Lutsk, both of which were some of the newest ships of the Ukrainian fleet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_corvette_Lutsk: Lutsk (Луцьк) was an anti-submarine corvette of the Ukrainian Navy. Board number U205 (to July 1994 was number 400, from 1994 until January 2007 – U200). In March 2014 Lutsk was captured by Russian forces during the annexation of Crimea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_corvette_Ternopil: Ternopil (U209) was a Grisha-class anti-submarine corvette of the Ukrainian Navy. In March 2014, the ship was captured by Russian forces during the annexation of Crimea, and was sunk as a live fire target in 2023.

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