Can someone explain why the Russians are in Ukraine? What are they doing? What is their objective? The news seems to skip over these important details.
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Sochi (Winter Olympics) is on the Black Sea. Novorossiysk is a large Black Sea port. They took control of this coast in the 1820s during the Ottoman-Russian wars.
Useful context: Crimea is already annexed. Russia is using it to transport pipelines. Not sure whether this is to simply shorten routes around the sea, whether it's a region of production itself, or something else. Whatever it is, there's been a lot of happenings: https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/08/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-blast