William B. Taylor: Whither Crimea?
A man wraped in Crimean Tatars flag takes a picture of a poster on the fence of russian embassy in Kyiv on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10.
In 2014 Russia invaded Crimea, part of sovereign Ukraine, sending in Russian soldiers in unmarked uniforms to occupy the peninsula. This was the first armed, cross-border invasion of one European country by another since World War II. President Vladimir V. Putin first denied sending the Russian Army into Crimea. He later admitted that he had lied.