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A spokesper­son for the pres­i­den­cy of Ukraine claimed Sun­day that Kyiv had received the sup­port of “over a dozen” coun­tries in launch­ing a plan to lib­er­ate Crimea, a Ukrain­ian region invad­ed and col­o­nized by Rus­sia in 2014.
Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky signed a decree announc­ing a “strat­e­gy for de-occu­pa­tion and rein­te­gra­tion” of Crimea on March 24 that spans a vari­ety of top­ics, from mil­i­tary removal of the Rus­sians to the pro­mo­tion of Ukrain­ian nation­al iden­ti­ty and human­i­tar­i­an aid to those harmed by the 2014 invasion.
Russ­ian leader Vladimir Putin claimed Crimea was large­ly pop­u­lat­ed by eth­nic Rus­sians and had his­tor­i­cal ties to Moscow, necessitating …