Whoever controls Sevastopol is likely to dominate the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Outside of Tartus, in Syria, which Russia lost recently, it is – or was – Russia’s only warm-weather port. Moscow’s ...

Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv — and most of the world — never recognized Moscow's annexation of the strategic peninsula, which is now a ...

Crimea, an Eastern European peninsula, is becoming increasingly central to the outcome of peace negotiations in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, with Newsweek breaking down how and why. Ukrainian ...

Late Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny once famously said that Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which has been under Russian control since 2014, is not "a ham sandwich" to be passed around. Its ...

Peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine may have hit a sticking point: Crimea. The future of the region is at the center of President Donald Trump's peace plan for the two nations, but ...

Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the largest wars in Europe since 1945. Using Google Earth, this video maps the ...

Even Ukraine’s staunchest allies sometimes waver, tempted to suggest that Kyiv concede Crimea to Russia as the long-running war there wages on. They often fall prey to a persistent myth: that Crimea ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make ...

President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement on Crimea, saying it was "very harmful" to peacemaking efforts. "It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that ...

Russian forces are moving military equipment, including air defense systems, "en masse" into Crimea, a pro-Ukrainian partisan group operating on the peninsula said on Monday. Russia annexed Crimea, ...

Sept 21 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack on a resort area of the Crimea peninsula killed three people and injured 16, the area's top official said, in an attack denounced by Moscow. Sergei ...