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"Ukraine needs solidarity not 'Crimnesia'"

Dr Rory Finnin, the associate professor of Ukrainian Studies at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, explains why we mustn't forget what happened in Crimea and why it is linked inextricably to current events in Ukraine.

"“Understanding the crisis today means remembering the dramatic events of 2014, when the Russian Federation seized Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” he says. “That operation is still in motion, but we in the West often consider it done and dusted."

Read the whole interview on the University of Cambridge website.