Representations of forty countries including a number of EU presidents and foreign ministers are set to gather in Kyiv on August 23 for the inaugural Crimea Platform summit. This new initiative aims to refocus international attention on the ongoing Russian occupation of Crimea. It comes more than seven years after Moscow’s military seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula stunned the world and paved the way for today’s Cold War climate.
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Peter Dickinson: Ukraine shines a spotlight on Putin’s Crimean crime
(FILES) Russian soldiers patrol in front of the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol on March 1, 2014.
