Ukrainian Commander Blabs About Kiev’s Plans to Try to Seize Crimea in 2023

In a snap referendum held in the spring of 2014, shortly after a US-backed coup in Kiev, Crimeans voted overwhelmingly for their peninsula’s return to Russia, with the vote taking place just over 60 years after the region’s 1954 transfer from the Russian to the Ukrainian Soviet republic by Nikita Khrushchev.