There is one topic on which Kyiv and Moscow will never agree, and yet, for both sides, this point is of the utmost importance — Crimea. Olha Kuryshko, the Ukrainian president’s permanent ...

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 ...

When that message reached Svitlana Kolisnichenko and her family in May 2024, it confirmed their worst fears about the property they left behind in Crimea after moving to Kyiv. Since the initial ...

Some of Russia’s abuses in Crimea, such as conscripting men into its armed forces and transferring civilian detainees to prisons in Russia, constitute war crimes.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Modding has been restrictive in the game, but Dmitry Grigorenko, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2’s game director, has announced a new update that drastically improves modding support. Players have ...

(A spokesman for Witkoff did not respond to questions.) On Feb. 27, 2014, Russian forces seized Crimea. Russia already had at least 12,500 troops at Sevastopol, a Crimean port leased by Russia and ...

Crimea had been contested for centuries by the Greeks, Mongols and Ottomans before Russia illegally annexed it from Ukraine in 2014. Sitting at a geographic crossroads between Europe, Asia and the ...

In an effort to keep its control of occupied Crimea, Russia has been filling the peninsula with air defence systems, leaving other fronts vulnerable. Source: Captain Dmytro Pletenchuk, Spokesperson ...

"It's impossible to put pressure on me," he said in 2022. Umerov is a prominent member of the Tatar Muslim community from Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 that Kyiv says ...

Languages: English. Vladimir Putin has spoken out about who might replace him, the possibility of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and Moscow's annexation of Crimea in a rare interview.