Crimean peninsula
Proper noun
Meaning
Crimean peninsula
Crimea, a peninsula of southern Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Crimean Peninsula
Alternative letter-case form of Crimean peninsula
Examples
But reverence for what’s called the Great Patriotic War has taken on increasingly political hues in the eight years since Putin returned to the presidency – and particularly since 2014, when Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
In addition, Trump took a wrecking ball to the U.S.-Russian arms control regime, further shrinking a bilateral agenda that had already become very sparse after the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2014 and Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and shortly thereafter began providing military, economic, and political support to separatist formations in parts of eastern Ukraine in a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people.
These were deployed in 1940 to the 2nd Special Squadron of the 32nd Fighter Regiment, based at Yevpatoria on the Crimean Peninsula.