From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

"The Crimean Tatars are Europe's last descendants of the Mongol Tatar Turkic Golden Horde… direct Muslim and Turkic descendants of all these ancient races going back thousands of years," says ...

stated that the occupied Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine “will stay” with Russia, as efforts to end the war in Ukraine intensify. U.S. President Donald Trump looks on, as he signs executive ...

In a TIME interview, Trump stated Crimea will "stay with Russia," igniting debate amid Ukraine-Russia tensions. He said that Ukraine won't join NATO, while urging peace talks. The recent interview ...

Here is where things stand on Saturday, April 26: Today, together with diplomatic representatives of the states and international organizations operating in Ukraine, we visited the site of the ...

President Donald Trump told Time Magazine that “Crimea will stay with Russia”—a concession Ukraine has strenuously objected to—a day after Trump issued rare criticism of Russian President ...

Trump’s statements were criticized by Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar community, indigenous people of Crimea, who in February 2014 clashed with a covert Russian army in Simferopol during large protests, while ...

Military analysts also note that Russia's ability to launch missile strikes into Ukraine often originates from Crimean territory. The region serves as a critical supply chain node for Russian ...

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The Crimean Peninsula, which sits in the Black Sea, houses Russia's only warm water port. It is of strategic and historical importance to Russia ...

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 ...

Is it morally wrong that the Crimean Peninsula is under Russian control? Yes, absolutely. Are Putin’s claims for why Russia should control Crimea valid? No, not at all. Should Ukraine accept ...