South of the Kerch Strait, Ukraine has wreaked havoc in the Black Sea - despite the fact it does not have a traditional navy. Kyiv has been using sea drones and missiles to attack Russia's fleet and last month Ukraine claimedRussia had almost abandoned Crimea. Image:The 21-mile long Kerch...
Ukrainian forces have carried out an attack against the small Russian naval base of Chornomors'ke on the northwestern coast of Crimea using at least three unmanned surface vessels (USVs). Video footage released by Ukraine's Defence Intelligence Directorate (GUR) on 10 November shows at least ...
It said in a statement that artillery units of the fleet had held combat training using drones at a proving ground in Crimea. The drones were used for detecting targets and adjusting the artillery fire. The ministry said earlier this week that a naval strike group, together with coastal anti-...
State media said Russia's air defense systems shot down a number of missiles aimed at Crimea, but that the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol was hit by at least one French or British-made cruise missile. "Work continues to extinguish the fire at the fleet headquart...
However, the only native ethnic minority in Crimea were Crimean Tatars. Ukrainians and Russians in Crimea were colonists and immigrants. Yet in 1992 May 5 when Crimea for one day declared independence the ones who wanted to separate were Russians. To pacify them Kyiv held a referendum of the...
the stakes in Ukraine's conflict, which saw the pro-Russian president flee last weekend after three months of anti-government protests. Moscow has vowed to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Crimea, where it has a major naval base, and Ukraine and the West have warned Russia to ...
MOSCOW, March 21 (Xinhua) -- A senior naval commander from Russia's Black Sea Fleet had been killed in Ukraine, said governor of Sevastopol, a port city on the Crimea Peninsula, on Sunday. Post-Captain Andrei Paliy, the fleet's deputy commander, died during fighting in the eastern Ukraini...
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Russia already has the part of Ukraine that it wants, the Crimea, which provides land access to their important naval base at Sevastopol, was it? The Black Sea fleet. Honestly, I don't see NATO risking an armed conflict with Russia over Ukraine. No one cares about them, sadly. But I...
t matter whether you can recognise lies if you still think of Ukrainians as your little brother speaking a funny dialect of russian who needs to be pulled back into line. The key question is what proportion understand Ukraine is an independent nation – all the way to Crimea – and has a...