Youths mark the ninth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine with a banner reading, ‘Russia doesn't start wars, it ends them,’ in 2023 (Copyright ...

A look at the diamond-shaped peninsula in the Black Sea, coveted by both Russia and Ukraine for its naval bases and beaches: Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire ...

Despite years of sanctions for annexing Crimea and a later full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's economy endured. Now, with Donald Trump shifting global alliances, it's Europe that's at a ...

Despite a decade of sanctions for fueling a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine, invading and subsequently annexing Crimea, a botched full-scale attack and three bloody years of fighting ...

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.

Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it. Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed ...

Explainer-Where Is Crimea and Why Is It Contested? (Reuters) - The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.