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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Languages: English. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently doubled down on his position that Kyiv will not accept any peace proposal that recognizes Crimea as Russian despite ...

Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Image The success of Ukraine’s counterattacks into Crimea may be the strongest argument for allowing Kyiv to fire long-range weapons into Russia. What Ukraine ...

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 ...

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 ...