Мілітаризація Росією тимчасово окупованого Кримського півострова (2014–2022)

The article characterizes the military potential of the Russian Federation on the Crimean peninsula on the eve of 2014 and during the Russian-Ukrainian war. The aggressor state, after the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, has amassed a significant amount of military equipment, weapons and military personnel on the peninsula, which complicates the inevitable de-occupation of the peninsula. At the beginning of the occupation, there were about twenty thousand Ukrainian servicemen in Crimea, of whom about six thousand returned to the mainland of Ukraine, which indicates the presence of a significant number of collaborators among the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The weapons captured during the temporary occupation and a significant military contingent were integrated into the occupation armed forces. Over the past ten years, a significant number of military personnel and military equipment have been redeployed to the territory of the Crimean peninsula, which has allowed the creation of new brigades, divisions or renewal of personnel in existing ones. The author states that the occupier attached particular importance to the development of the Black Sea Fleet, which acquired not only military and strategic importance, but also geopolitical/geostrategic importance, and was supposed to ensure the aggressor State’s dominance in the region, although the realities turned out to be far from the plans. The aggressor State intended to load the industry of the temporarily occupied peninsula with the State Defense Order, which, however, was partially realized. The author concludes that despite the presence of a significant number of troops and equipment in Crimea, the Ukrainian State, with international support, will regain control over the territories temporarily occupied by Russia.