Russian or Ukranian?
dont forget that: The transfer of the Crimean Oblast in 1954 was an administrative action of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union which transferred the government of the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian SSR.
Russian. You don't stand a chance of getting it back so shut the fuck up.
Why do you even care? Better think about your people in Kashmir and how you're gonna deal with those chinks.
It was conquered by Russians and has a Russian majority.
I see no way you could consider it Ukrainian, that is outside of legal norms.
But same legal norms were shat on by several Western states in case of Kosovo, as well as previous cases like breakup of Yugoslavia.
For example Germans rushed to recognize Croatia as an independent state, despite the fact Croatian government didn't control entire territory they claimed.
Now those same states support the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
It's pure hypocrisy, even if it doesn't make Russian action legal.
Anyway the fact Crimea was handed over to Ukrainian SSR by a decree of the government doesn't really mean that Russian annexation is legal.
Russia did recognize Ukraine as a sovereign state in those borders in 90s.
I mean you could argue they did it under duress but that's just weak.
Russian control of Crimea is de facto illegal occupation.
However, speaking from the perspective of "righteousness", Crimea should belong to Russia.
would you support your country's leadership if they started a war over a piece of land in the Black Sea?
Am i the only one who is for the third option.
Ukraine is not even a country but a part of russia going through teenager phase (quite literally)
they dont have a say in anything
Ukrainian
But Crimeans don't want that and Ukrainian government has shown zero desire to grant them any sort of increased autonomy. Same for Donbass.