The Russia-Ukraine War began in February 2014 with the covert invasion of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea by disguised Russian troops. The conflict expanded in April 2014 when Russians and local proxy forces seized territory in Ukraine’s Don
Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and used it as one of the launchpads for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Separately on Wednesday, Russian emergency services blamed a large fire at a fuel depot on the Taman peninsula, which adjoins Crimea across the Kerch strai...
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 ...
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...
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, r...
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 ...
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 The market certainly thinks that the Black Sea grain deal is dead, S&P says ...
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, but it is one that Moscow presumably thinks that it has been forced into making. As Moscow views the situation, the ...