What are the gains and losses of Russia's annexation of Crimea?

Crimea is a peninsula on the northern shore of the Black Sea, adjacent to the throats of two continents in the Near East, so it has always been a battleground for military strategists. Since its independence, Ukraine has been the only autonomous republic in its territory, with Simferopol as its capital. The Kerch Peninsula in the east faces the mainland across the Kerch Strait. Crimea is also translated as the Crimean Peninsula, with an area of 25,500 square kilometers and a population of about 2.5 million. Its name comes from the Tatar's "Crimea", which is the name of the earliest Khan king of Tatar. The earliest name of Crimea is Kulasalia, because Kula people once lived there. The ancient Greeks called Crimea Tauritz.

Historically, Crimea was occupied by different nationalities. 19 18, Crimea belongs to Russia. 1954 In May, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the merger of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ordered Crimea to be assigned to Ukraine. From 65438 to 0992, the Parliament of Crimea successively passed the Law on Independence of Crimea and the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea. Since then, due to the opposition of the Ukrainian government, the constitution has been banned. 20 14 in March, the Crimean parliament declared its independence from Ukraine, but it was not recognized by Ukraine. On March 201April 16, Crimea held a referendum to decide whether to join Russia.

Ukrainian Crimean TV reported on March 20 14 17 that the statistics of all the votes in the referendum showed that 96.6% of the voters were in favor of Crimea's joining Russia, only 2.5 1% were in favor of Ukraine, and 0.72% of the votes were invalid. The Crimean Parliament called on the United Nations and other countries in the world to regard Crimea as an independent country.

In this way, Crimea voted to join Russia, and then Crimea was immediately taken over by Russia. But surprisingly, Ukraine did not carry out much military resistance. There are many reasons for this, but after careful analysis, there are only two key reasons:

The first reason: 20 14 When Putin announced that Crimea belonged to Russia on February 20, the leadership of Ukraine, that is, the Ukrainian president and powerful ministers, were all controlled by Russia. For example, the President of Ukraine is unpopular with the people and his own political party. He received strong support from Russia and obtained billions of dollars in loans from Russia. In addition, his bodyguard is also a member of the former Russian Federal Security Service, and he is an out-and-out Russian. Two days later, the president was taken away from Ukraine by a Russian helicopter overnight, transferred to the Russian naval base in Crimea, then went to Russia and never returned to Ukrainian soil. At the same time that Russian special forces took over the strategic stronghold in Crimea, the Ukrainian president was held in solitary confinement for several days, so when Russia took action, no one in power in Ukraine gave orders and ordered the army to fire and resist.

The second reason: when the Ukrainian parliament abolished the "kidnapped" president by a two-thirds majority vote, it was too late to re-elect the acting president and re-appoint the Minister of National Defense, the Chief of Police and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ukrainian military bases in Crimea have been surrounded, blocked and attacked. Russia has sent a large number of troops to Crimea, and only Ukraine can send troops on a large scale to save the situation, but Ukraine has no ready-made troops at all.