Byline: David Williams and James ChapmanUKRAINE accused Russia of an 'armed invasion and occupation' in Crimea yesterday as troops blocked access to the region's two major airports and took over a border post. The military moves came as ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, appearing in public ...
MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Russia expects Ukraine to provoke it militarily on the border of Crimea in the last 10 days of December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have amassed around 12,000 troops and a great amount of equipment on the cont...
Image:Vladimir Putin speaks at a rally in Moscow to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia in 2014 What are the chances of Ukraine retaking Crimea by force? Crimea is a huge part of Russia's history and Russia never believed that Crimea was not Russian, re...
Russia Shoots Down Missiles Over Crimea and Regions Bordering Ukraine More (Reuters) -Russian air defence systems shot down four missiles on Sunday, Russian officials said, one over the annexed Crimean peninsula and three over Russia's Rostov and Bryansk regions that border Ukraine. A cr...
Russian officials said Ukraine attacked the Russian city of Belgorod overnight, as well as the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, as a series of retaliatory strikes by Russia and Ukraine continue. The Russian Governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov,said Russia downed more Ukrainian...
It is far from clear whether most of the 2 million Crimea residents want to be ruled by Moscow. When last asked in 1991, they voted narrowly for independence along with the rest of Ukraine. Western countries dismiss the planned referendum as illegal and likely to be falsified....
Crimea, which was previously part of Ukraine, was incorporated into Russia in 2014 following a referendum, which was recognized by Moscow but rejected by Ukraine and Western powers. Relations between Moscow and Kiev have worsened since the referendum, while Ukraine said the peninsula was illegally ...
Moscow's actions are illegal and wrongheaded, but disaster could still be averted.Daniel Larison Mar 1, 2014 12:21 PM Russia has seized control of Crimea, and its upper house of parliament has voted to authorize the use of the military in Ukraine. This is a wrongheaded and illegal move...
"Today is an important day for all Crimea, Ukraine and Russia," said voter Manita Meshchina. "I think that people are expecting the majority of people will vote 'yes.' What it means is that people believe and think they need to be with Russia." ...
Meanwhile, Crimea's Kerch Bridge haspartially reopened to traffica day after being damaged by two explosions that Moscow blames on Ukraine. Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the attack. watch now VIDEO Tue, Jul 18 20234:30 PM EDT ...