Update on the Situation in the Temporarily Occupied Territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol as of March 23, 2026 Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Before the invasion, Zelenskyy focused on diplomatic efforts to get Crimea back, but after Russian troops poured across the border, Kyiv began publicly contemplating retaking the peninsula by force. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to retake it and said Russia “won’t be able to steal” the peninsula. In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the peninsula became part of newly independent Ukraine. The peninsula was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century.

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Brines from Syvash supply chemical plants at Krasnoperekopsk in northwestern Crimea. The republic is coterminous with the Crimean Peninsula, lying between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The Crimean Premier League is now the top football league in Crimea. Following Crimea’s vote to join Russia and subsequent annexation in March 2014, the top football clubs withdrew from the Ukrainian leagues.

Behind it is the Syvash or “Putrid Sea”, a system of lakes and marshes which in the far north extend west to the Perekop Isthmus. Just south of Kerch the new Crimean Bridge (opened in 2018) connects Crimea to the Taman Peninsula. On the south side is the large Donuzlav Bay and the port and ancient Greek settlement of Yevpatoria/Kerkinitis/Gözleve. The eastern tip of the Crimean peninsula comprises the Kerch Peninsula, separated from Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland by the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, at a width of between 3–13 kilometres (1.9–8.1 mi). The northern part of Arabat Spit is administratively part of Henichesk Raion in Kherson Oblast, including its two rural communities of Shchaslyvtseve and Strilkove.

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• Most of the peninsula receives more than 2,000 sunshine hours per year; it reaches up to 2,505 sunshine hours in Qarabiy yayla in the Crimean Mountains.
• Lake Syvash (Sıvaş or Сива́ш) is a system of interconnected shallow lagoons on the north-eastern coast, covering an area of around 2,560 km2 (988 sq mi).
• The Genoese–Mongol Wars were fought between the 13th and 15th centuries for control of south Crimea.

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Due to his detention in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 2 in Simferopol and the lack of necessary medical care, he has developed heart and vascular problems, an unknown leg disease, and hair loss. Human rights defenders emphasize that the abduction and holding of people in complete isolation are war crimes. He was detained in 2019 after a second search on suspicion of involvement in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” organization.

Some Greek myths state that this cape was supposedly crowned with the temple of Artemis where Iphigeneia officiated as priestess.Uchan-su, on the south slope of the mountains, is the highest waterfall in Crimea. North of the peninsula the Dnieper turns westward and enters the Black Sea through the east–west Dnieper-Bug Estuary which also receives the Bug River. Covering an area of 27,000 km2 (10,425 sq mi), Crimea is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea and on the 1xbet download western coast of the Sea of Azov; the only land border is shared with Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast on the north. The south coast remained Greek in culture for almost two thousand years including under Roman successor states, the Byzantine Empire (341–1204 CE), the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461 CE), and the independent Principality of Theodoro (ended 1475 CE). When the Bolsheviks secured Crimea, it became an autonomous soviet republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.