Russia issues Crimea banknote in move likely to irk Ukraine

A screen, showing Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual end-of-year news conference, is on display on a street of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday issued a new banknote dedicated to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed last year, in a move likely to anger Kiev which says it wants the territory back.

Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in March last year in a military operation denounced by the West which imposed retaliatory sanctions on Moscow that remain in place.