Give three reasons Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula are strategically important to Russia
Ukraine is blessed with an abundance of fertile black earth soils, especially in the steppe region south of Kiev. Historically, Ukraine has been a great "bread- basket"—especially of globally important wheat—along with barley, livestock, sunflower oil, beet sugar, and many other products.
Ukraine also has a generous endowment of industrial raw materials, especially coal and iron ore, located mainly in the country's east.
It wanted the warm water port of Sevastopol.
It wants to establish a buffer zone between itself and the "Far Abroad.".
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