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 ...
essentially, as an excuse to try to build up that narrative," Hess told CNBC's "Capital Connection," stressing that the "whole security apparatus has been focused on Russia's war in Ukraine."
But as the war has gone on and Ukrainian troops have secured a more and more battlefield victories, he has been clearer: Crimea is Ukraine, and his armed forces will retake it. Ukrainian deputy defence minister Volodymyr Havrylov told Sky News thatUkrainian forces could be ...
On Tuesday morning, Moscow said it had carried out a "mass revenge strike" on two port cities in Ukraine after an attack on its Kerch Bridge that it blamed on Kyiv. Russia and Ukraine exported 25% of the world's grain before the war, and a large proportion of countries that rely on ...
The origins of the Russia-Ukraine War begin 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 has been aggressive in going after targets in occupied Crimea as a part of a broader effort to hit Russian logistics, fuel, maintenance and command centers, in order to disrupt their ability to supply the front lines. Kyiv has also focused on breaking Russia’s dominance in Ukraine’...
Tuesday saw Russian President Vladimir Putin announce the annexation of Crimea, two days after voters in that semiautonomous territory approved a hastily called referendum on separating from Ukraine. Putin told a joint session of Russia’s Parliament that the nearly 97% of Crimean residents who vot...
Ukraine has not fallen due to the grit of its people and unprecedented assistance from its western partners, but it has lost nearly 20 per cent of its territory and tens of thousands of citizens, including soldiers and civilians. And with Russia still on the march, the war is far from ove...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine- Russian forces tightened their grip on Crimea on Sunday despite a U.S. warning to Moscow that annexing the southern Ukrainian region would close the door to diplomacy ina tense East-West standoff. Russian forces took control of a Ukrainian border guard post in western Crime...
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...