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by 29athrowaway 2358 days ago
I took that from Encyclopedia Britannica:

> Ethnic Russians constituted a majority of the population in Crimea

https://www.britannica.com/place/Crimea/History

About other oblasts like Donetsk and Luhansk, I don't think Russia has a way to make those territorial claims look legitimate.