the ukraine's crimea and sevastopol was taken over by russia with a treaty on 18 march 2014.
the ukraine's crimea and sevastopol was taken over by russia with a treaty on 18 march 2014.
when was the ukraine's crimea and sevastopol taken over by russia with a treaty?
18 march 2014
during the february–march 2014 crimean crisis ukraine lost control of its government buildings, airports and military bases in crimea to unmarked soldiers and local pro-russian militias. this started on 27 february when unmarked armed men seized the crimean parliamentary building. the same day the crimean parliament replaced the local government with one who wanted crimean unification with russia. this government organized the 2014 crimean status referendum on 14 march 2014 in which the voters voted overwhelmingly to join russia. on 17 march 2014, crimea declared its independence. on 18 march 2014, a treaty on incorporating crimea and sevastopol into russia was signed in moscow and in five days the "constitutional law on admitting to the russian federation the republic of crimea and establishing within the russian federation the new constituent entities the republic of crimea and the city of federal importance sevastopol" was quickly pushed through the russian parliament, signed by the russian president and entered into force. on 19 march 2014 all armed forces of ukraine are withdrawn from crimea. on 17 april 2014, president putin stated that the russian military had backed crimean separatist militias, stating that russia's intervention was necessary "to ensure proper conditions for the people of crimea to be able to freely express their will".
russia–ukraine relations
bullet::::- following the breakup of the soviet union, the russian federation refused to recognize ukrainian sovereignty over sevastopol as well as over the surrounding crimean oblast, using the argument that the city was never practically integrated into the ukrainian ssr because of its military status. this claim was relinquished in the bilateral peace and friendship treaty, which confirmed that both the crimea and sevastopol belong to ukraine. a separate treaty established the terms of a long-term lease of land and resources in and around sevastopol by russia. in the annexation of crimea by the russian federation of early 2014 crimea was annexed by russia. since then status of the crimea and of the city of sevastopol is currently under dispute between russia and ukraine; ukraine and the majority of the un members consider crimea to be an autonomous republic of ukraine and sevastopol to be one of ukraine's cities with special status, while russia and other un members, on the other hand, consider crimea to be a federal subject of russia and sevastopol to be one of russia's federal cities. on 31 march 2014 the state duma approved the denunciation of the above-mentioned peace and friendship treaty and long-term lease of land in sevastopol.
foreign relations of russia