Recognizing Crimea as part of Russia would put the Trump administration in breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the US made a commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders ...

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

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts. Crimea had been contested for centuries by ...

What happened in Crimea on the evening of June 5 On the evening of June 5, air raid sirens went off in Sevastopol for the first time at 9:35 p.m. Russian sources reported a threat of a missile strike.

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its long history either coveted, conquered or controlled by various powers.

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.

Crimea's temperate climate made it a popular tourist destination for Ukrainians and Russians before the Russia-Ukraine war, especially Yalta, where the Soviet, U.S. and British victors of World ...

President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement on Crimea, saying it was "very harmful" to peacemaking efforts. "It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy ...

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. It is now ...