Medal "For the Return of Crimea"
[2] The existence of the award was also confirmed by Yaroslav Roshchupkin, an employee of the press service for the Central Military District.The start date of the "return of Crimea" operation appears 20 February when Viktor Yanukovych was still in office as Ukraine's head of state.The fact that Crimea started its "return" to Russia two days before Yanukovych's removal from power and his resignation from the post of the President of Ukraine can be considered as an indirect proof that Russia launched its operation to seize the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine on 20 February 2014.[5] A similar award, the Medal "For the Liberation of the Crimea" (Russian: медаль «За освобождение Крыма», romanized: medal "Za osvobozhdeniye Kryma"), was awarded to head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and Krasnodar Krai governor Alexander Tkachov, as well as the Night Wolves leader Alexander Zaldastanov for "support of Crimeans" in achieving "self-determination".[7] It was widely reported in the media when a "Crimea medal" was to be put on auction in Moscow on 13 April 2019 by Igor Girkin, a Russian militant commander involved in the war in Donbas.
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