Crimea is adjacent to the Kherson region. Article content Article content Earlier, the head of the International Atomic Agency (IAEA) said he would lead a team of inspectors this week to the Zaporizhzhia plant, on the Dnipro river in southern central Ukraine, without specifying the...
Ukraine has stepped up its attacks in the Black Sea and on Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014. Kyiv has reported a series of strikes on warships on and near Crimea this autumn, including a large landing vessel and a submarine. "You can count the ones ...
Oleksii Riabchyn,Ukraine's former deputy minister for energy and environment, told Sky News: "[The operation] is a PR move on Ukrainian Independence Day but it does show the vulnerability of Crimea for Putin's regime. "Crimea will be Ukraine's again and the West sh...
The US president triumphantly announced Russia and Ukraine will "immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire", without explaining how this was any different from the non-starter negotiations that began in Turkey on Friday. Putin had sent a low-level delegation to ...
Last week, Putin accused Ukraine of "dangerous provocative actions" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Relations between Kyiv and Moscow have worsened since Putin first backed the separatists in the area and seized Crimea in 2014. The Kremlin insists its support for the separatists is limited to...
Two weeks ago, after the Americans directed Ukraine to bomb the beach in Crimea, Lavrov said, we’re at war with the United States. He called the American ambassador, we’re [at war] with the United States. This means that [Russia] can now fight back beyond Ukraine. It’s not about...
It has been a day of high-tension in Ukraine, in particular the southern peninsula known as CrimeaJIM AXELROD, ELIZABETH PALMER
Most of Crimea has been controlled by Russia since 2014. However, the most northern areas of the Arabat Spit and the Syvash were controlled by Ukraine until Russia occupation resumed in February 2022. Now Crimea is 100% under the control of Russia. Donetsk is 53% restored to the DPR (...
and that insists that Ukraine can hope neither to regain its lands seized by Russia nor expect NATO membership. Add to this Trump’s suggestion that Russia should be invited back to the G7 from which it had been ousted since 2014 over its takeover of Crimea. In short, it looks like the...
The Azov Battalion was formed in 2014, the same year Russian-backed rebels began seizing territory across Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, and Russia invaded and captured Crimea. At the time, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense encouraged volunteer battalions to join the resistance campaign and help it...