Claim: Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for  Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election."
Fact-check: Karl Rove says Crimea annexation removes Viktor Yanukovych's 2010 margin of victory
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-03-19T00:00:00