QUICK HIT: Revisiting Crimea: A Forgotten Perspective
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As questions swirl about possible direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, war correspondent Hollie McKay highlights a disputed area that both countries claim: Crimea. We find Crimea at the beginning of the story of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and now as potential key part of the end. What's going on and why it matters, with Hollie McKay.
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| 0:00.0 | A look at part of the world often talked about, but never really explained. |
| 0:04.6 | War correspondent Holly McKay takes us to a disputed area of Eastern Europe, central to the war between Russia and Ukraine. |
| 0:12.2 | What should you know about Crimea and why it matters? |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:29.9 | Holly, why did you want to revisit this area of Crimea? |
| 0:32.6 | It's a part of Ukraine slash Russia. We'll talk about that in just a moment that we don't talk about a lot in the news. |
| 0:36.7 | Why did you want to bring it back up |
| 0:38.8 | and reinvestigate this part of the world? I think because we hear so much about Crimea, |
| 0:44.4 | just from a policy point of view, it's this political football going between President Trump, |
| 0:51.3 | President Zelensky, and then President Putin. But we don't actually hear anything really about what Crimeans want. |
| 0:59.3 | And I think that tends to be a little bit of a theme in a lot of policy decisions is you have people at the top that are talking about what's best for people on the ground who effectively have very little sale that we don't even |
| 1:12.0 | hear a lot about in the media. And there's different reasons for that. But I think it's important |
| 1:16.6 | to look at what Crimeans want. And that's why I kind of wanted to go back into this story a little |
| 1:22.6 | bit. Why is Crimea important? When did we first start talking about Crimea in the news coverage of Ukraine and Russia? |
| 1:31.1 | Sure. So this is really the beginning of the war, the war that we see now, the war that kind of expanded, if you will, in 2022. |
| 1:39.5 | That wasn't the start of Russia's invasion into Crimea. This started in the beginning of 2014, |
| 1:46.0 | and it started with Crimea. That was really the first time, the annexation, and it happened |
| 1:54.0 | without a bullet being fired. And that was because these little green men just sort of |
| 1:59.7 | en masse started to go and they were occupying |
| 2:02.5 | government buildings. They were occupying the town square. People didn't really know who they were. |
| 2:08.1 | Putin was denying it. But essentially, they were Russian troops just without their insignia. |
| 2:13.6 | And at the time, Ukrainian troops didn't know what was going on. People were a little bit scared, and they kind of cowered away in their bunkers. |
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