Five years ago today, on March 16, 2014, Russia stage-managed a sham referendum in Crimea and two days later illegally annexed the peninsula, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Mikser (SDE) wrote in a statement published on March 16 morning.
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The residents of Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, gather for a rally in solidarity with people in occupied Crimea on the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko's birthday in the Shevchenko Park in Kyiv on March 9, 2019.