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Zelenskyy vows to 'return Crimea' to Ukraine As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to return Crimea to Ukraine. Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea, was absorbed into the Russian empire after Catherine the Great annexed it in the 18th century. In 1921, the peninsula became part of the Soviet Union and of Russia within it until 1954, when it was handed to Ukraine, also a Soviet republic, by Josef Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev. In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Russia recognised Ukrainian sovereignty in its existing borders - which included Crimea...
