Crimea's strategic value lies in its geography and infrastructure. It extends deep into the Black Sea, allowing military forces stationed there to project power across southeastern Europe and into ...

Trump chided the Ukrainian leader for refusing to recognise Russia's occupation of Crimea as part of a U.S. peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. Sign up here. Zelenskiy has said that Ukraine ...

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

Crimea has emerged as the central obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. But for the strategic peninsula, being at the nexus of great power competition is nothing new. At the northern end of the ...

The disagreement centres on the status of Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, an action that triggered the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Mr Trump pressed Mr Zelensky ...

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 ...

Again. "Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia in the hearts and minds of people," said Russian President Vladimir Putin, after signing a treaty with the pro-Moscow leaders of Crimea to ...

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. But Kyiv — and m ...