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 vehicle runs down the 19 km road-and-rail Crimean Bridge passing over the Kerch Strait
Image: Alexander Nemenov/AFPImage: Alexander Nemenov/AFP

Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. Crimea became part of the newly independent Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but was illegally annexed by Russia in March 2014.

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