From the Crimean War in the 1850s between France, the UK, the then Ottoman Empire, and Russia, to the Russo-Ukrainian conflicts of the 21st century, Crimea has long been a site of geopolitical contention. What makes this peninsula so important?

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Firstly, its geographic location. Crimea commands the access routes between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Secondly, it is the location of the largest Russian naval base in the Black Sea, Sevastopol. As a warm water port, it allows fleet basing and power projection year-round.

Crimea after World War 2 was part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). Transferred to the Ukrainian SFSR in 1954, it became part of an independent Ukraine upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

As a result of this history, the Russians maintained a lease on the Sevastopol naval base even into 2014. Concerns over the long-term viability of this avenue of power projection, however, may have prompted the Russian military intervention and occupation of Crimea in that year. The rest, as they say, is history.

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