President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine should recognize Russia’s control over Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula Moscow siezed by force more than a decade ago, is threatening ...

Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukraine’s president Wednesday, accusing Volodymyr Zelenskyy of ...

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 ...

“Crimea is a test for principles, resilience and dignity,” said the Crimean Tatar civic activist. “Not only for Ukraine, but also for the entire civilized world.” Alexander Smith ...

Crimea has been a crossroads for millennia, colonized by serial invaders from Mongol warriors to Genoese traders. Catherine the Great annexed it for Russia in 1783, and World War II brought a Nazi ...

Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.

A view shows the Kerch Bridge linking Russia to Crimea, which was targeted in an explosion by Ukraine on Tuesday, June 3. (Reuters/Alexey Pavlishak) "Previously, we struck the Crimean Bridge twice ...

The fighting in Crimea proves that when given the tools and the freedom to use them, Ukraine can counterattack in a way that diminishes Mr. Putin’s war machine.

And while it’s true that Crimea was part of Russia for more than a century and a half – since it was annexed by Catherine the Great in 1783 until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954 – this ...

Crimea is a focus of discussions to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Here’s why it’s so coveted Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless.

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 ...