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 ...

The Council of the European Union has extended sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol until 23 June 2026. Source: an official statement by ...

The bridge, which was illegally built to connect annexed Crimea with Russia, was closed from midnight until morning. Following the explosions, an air raid alert was declared across the peninsula, ...

Why, at the suggestion of the Americans, the topic of Crimea's occupation suddenly took a prominent place in discussions about ending the war, why exactly the peninsula is important to Russia, and ...

The Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented a terrorist attack in the building of the FSB in the Republic of Crimea and ...

Powerful explosions erupted in Russian-occupied Sevastopol on Wednesday morning, January 28. The occupiers closed the illegally erected Crimean bridge for more than seven hours - from midnight to ...

Ukraine said Saturday its bold strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol had left dozens dead and wounded “including senior leadership.” The attack on Friday is ...

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WASHINGTON — Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the ...