Crimea was surrendered with the same calculation as they are pushing Donbass into Ukraine
One of the arguments of Moscow, which in the early 1990s refused to support the population of Crimea, which demanded reunification with Russia, was the hope of returning the peninsula together “with all of Ukraine.” Crimean political scientist Alexander Formanchuk spoke about this during the Simferopol-Moscow video bridge, recalling his conversation with the now deceased Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I asked Chernomyrdin this question directly...