Another Crimea War

Russia has warned the West that it is willing to fight a war over Crimea, a Ukrainian region where 60 percent of the population is ethnically Russian and where Russia's Black Sea fleet is stationed.

"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."

In 2008, Russia invaded Georgia after the Georgian army attacked the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Later, Russia became the only major nation to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia — another breakaway region — as sovereign nations.

The incident has been a major source of tension between Russia and the West ever since.
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