Given Crimea's historic ties to Russia and its majority ethnic Russian population, many Ukrainian officials fear that Russia could try to foment separatist movements in Crimea as a means of putting pressure on Ukraine to curb its ties to the West.
Dados los lazos históricos de Crimea con Rusia y su mayoritaria población rusa étnica, muchos funcionarios ucranianos temen que Rusia intente fomentar movimientos separatistas en Crimea como medio de presionar a Ucrania para que no estreche sus lazos con Occidente.