Winter Over, Ukraine Breaks the Ice on Crimea

Yet readiness to negotiate on the Russian-occupied peninsula depends on spring counteroffensive.

AP/Czarek Sokolowski
Presidents Duda and Zelensky at the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, April 5, 2023. AP/Czarek Sokolowski

Is Ukraine really ready to negotiate on Crimea? The ultimate status of the strategic peninsula that Russia in 2014 seized from Ukraine and subsequently annexed illegally is both part and parcel of the independent Ukraine that emerged as the former Soviet Union broke up, and a place that Vladimir Putin views as part of Russia. 

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