Russia’s “velvet occupation” of Crimea began 30 years ago – expert

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The long-running initiative of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was funded by the Moscow city budget and continued until 2010. Ukrainian military officer and diplomat Vasyl Servatiuk, a lieutenant general and former first deputy head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, said this in an interview with Ukrinform . He recalled that Russian money was used at the time to build housing in Crimea, including in Kerch and Shcholkine, and later in Simferopol and Yevpatoria. “If not only we, but everyone else had supported housing construction in Crimea at the time and relocated Ukrainian pensioners there, perhaps the events of 2014 would never have happened. What was the situation in Crimea back then?