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Russia is a vast country, so its sea ports are essential to the running of the country.
Which is why its ports at Sebastopol Crimea, Saint Petersburg and in Syria, which gives access to the wider oceans, are worth Russia fighting neighbouring countries for.
They are not essentiallyevil, they just want access to strategic waterways.
Fabulous my Dad and his new family are in the Ukraine :(
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Crimea is a penisula in the black sea, where Russia has a very strategically pisitioned naval base at Sebastopol.
it gives the Russia fleet access to the mediterranean, on the wider oceans.
Russia has had a presence there for over 300 years. When Ukraine wanted EU membership, Russia felt its base there was threaten, so annexed the whole crimea region.
But your relatives will be hundreds amiles away fro this flashpoint, so don’t worry.
Ukraine has ports on the Azov Sea - Mariupol and Berdyansk - which are currently effectively being blockaded by Russia, due to its recent practice of stopping and searching all shipping passing under the new bridge. Russia annexed Sevastopol and stole 80% of Ukraine’s Black Sea fleet in 2014. Sevastopol is not anywhere near here this part of the Crimean coast, so defence of its illegally gotten gains is not really an excuse.
"Russia annexed Sevastopol and stole 80% of Ukraine’s Black Sea fleet in 2014."

Trying to 'steal' 17 years to suit your blackwashing ?

"The agreement between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Parameters of the Division of the Black Sea Fleet, the agreement between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Status and Conditions of the Presence of the Russian Federation Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine and agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Ukraine on Payments Associated with the Division of the Black Sea Fleet and Its Presence on the territory of Ukraine were the three treaties[2] signed between Russia and Ukraine on 28 May 1997.."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_Treaty_on_the_Status_and_Conditions_of_the_Black_Sea_Fleet
"Under the partition treaty, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet that was located in the Crimean Peninsula at the time, was partitioned between Russia (81.7%) and Ukraine (18.3%). Russia maintained the right to use the Port of Sevastopol in Ukraine for 20 years until 2017"

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