in Novorossiisk, and some of them are ke Russia's Novorossiisk naval base on its eastern Black Sea coast lacks the extensive facilities of Crimea's Sevastopol, which served as the storage and loading site for cruise missiles used by its warships to launch air strikes on Ukraine,...
Russian special forces storm the Ukrainian Belbek Airbase on March 22, 2014 near Sevastopol, Crimea. Crimea, a peninsula along the northern coast of the Black Sea, had long been a part of Russia, but the Soviet Union transferred it to Ukraine in 1954. This was not a big deal as long as...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and billionaire businessman Arkady Rotenberg, left, during the awarding ceremony for the builders of the Crimean Bridge, on March 18, 2020 in Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images ...
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Col. Yuli Mamchur, commander of the Ukrainian garrison at the Belbek air base, lead his men to the base outside Sevastopol, Ukraine, March 4, 2014. Ivan Sekretarev/AP Photo BELBEK, Crimea - Colonel Yuli Mamchur is a rare breed in Crimea these days: a Ukrainian base commander who...
Russia Ukraine If I was in Odesa this morning I would think "well OK we have shown them what we can do". That said, this is only one phase, one episode, in what is going to be a fairly long war. What likely happened? The Moskva was sailing up and down in a fa...
of Ukraine – the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, and from 2022 – in the territory of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine. This contradicts the norms of international law and the Constitution of Ukraine....
Putin has turned Victory Day — the country’s most important secular holiday — into a pillar of his nearly quarter-century in power and a justification of his military action in Ukraine.
Novaya Gazeta: ‘It is Seen as Correct to Initiate Annexation of Eastern Regions of Ukraine to Russia’ February 24, 2015 Spotlight Ukraine On February 21, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, gave an interview to Ekho Moskvy in which he described how his newspaper had obt...
Ukraine is currently in a territorial dispute with Russia over the peninsula ofCrimea. Though the Russian Federation annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine (along with most of the international community) considers the region to be Ukrainian. Since then, it has been administered as two Russian federal su...