Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Zelensky's Soldiers Admit They Are Afraid Of Putin's Su-35 Fighter | Watch What Ukraine Said" video.
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@josephsmith688 Depends when in history, but how about 1954:
The decision on Crimea adopted by the Supreme Soviet on 19 February 1954. The Supreme Soviet was, as is well known, the legislative national assembly of the Soviet Union.
In this context, it is worth noting that the decision came about after a process that had stretched over some time, and was shortly afterwards approved by the Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Republics respectively. As an official justification for the transfer, reference was made to economics, geography and cultural ties between the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland. After all, Crimea is not self-sufficient and does not have a land connection with Russia - the peninsula has therefore always been dependent on getting necessary supplies from the Ukrainian mainland, including electricity, water for agriculture via artificial canals, etc.
It is also worth noting that Russia NEVER made any claim on the Crimean Peninsula in terms of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
But neither have the Russian authorities subsequently made any such demand, be it in relation to the negotiations on the Budapest memorandum in 1994, the Ukrainian-Russian friendship agreement in 1997 or in The Kharkiv Agreement in 2010.
On the contrary, as late as 2008, in an interview with German ARD, in connection with the then military conflict Russia had with Georgia over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Putin specified that RUSSIA DOES NOT lay claim to Crimea - and became slightly indignant when the interviewer referred to the French foreign minister, who had expressed concern that Crimea could be Russia's next target. To this Putin replied:
"I think talking about something like 'the next goal' is inappropriate. […] Crimea is not a disputed area.
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