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Crimea was part of Russia from 1783 under Catherine the Great until 1954 when Kruschev's USSR "gave" it to the Ukraine SSR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_to_Ukraine
This war is Revanchist at its core - Putin wants to restore the Russian Empire. Ukraine, esp Eastern Ukraine, is "Little Russia".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia
Modern usage
The term Little Russia is now anachronistic when used to refer to the country Ukraine and the modern Ukrainian nation, its language, culture, etc. Such usage is typically perceived as conveying an imperialist view that the Ukrainian territory and people ("Little Russians"
belong to "one, indivisible Russia".[29] Today, many Ukrainians consider the term disparaging, indicative of Russian suppression of Ukrainian identity and language.
It has continued to be used in Russian nationalist discourse, in which modern Ukrainians are presented as a single people in a united Russian nation. This has provoked new hostility toward and disapproval of the term by many Ukrainians. In July 2021 Vladimir Putin published a 7000-word essay, a large part of which was devoted to expounding these views.
The term Little Russia is now anachronistic when used to refer to the country Ukraine and the modern Ukrainian nation, its language, culture, etc. Such usage is typically perceived as conveying an imperialist view that the Ukrainian territory and people ("Little Russians"
belong to "one, indivisible Russia".[29] Today, many Ukrainians consider the term disparaging, indicative of Russian suppression of Ukrainian identity and language.
It has continued to be used in Russian nationalist discourse, in which modern Ukrainians are presented as a single people in a united Russian nation. This has provoked new hostility toward and disapproval of the term by many Ukrainians. In July 2021 Vladimir Putin published a 7000-word essay, a large part of which was devoted to expounding these views.
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