Essay: 10 years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky
STEFAN WOLFF, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, says efforts to integrate the peninsula into Russia have been far from successful…
Postcards: Twice displaced, Crimean Tatar woman longs for home 10 years after annexation
ALINA SMUTKO and ANDRIY PERUN, of Reuters, report…
Russian missiles kill 20 in Odesa, Zelenskiy vows retaliation
Odesa, Ukraine Reuters A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70, in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia would receive a “fair response” from Ukrainian forces for […]
Russian lawmakers seek to nullify Soviet transfer of Crimea to Ukraine
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine. The move appears aimed at establishing a legal basis for Russia to argue that Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which […]
Ukraine says it has sunk a Russian patrol ship near Crimea
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian sea drones hit and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency said a special unit called Group 13 had fired Magura V5 maritime drones at the Sergey Kotov near the Kerch Strait, […]
Ukraine says it sank Russian large landing warship in Black Sea
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine destroyed a Russian landing warship off the coast of occupied Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel’s port side on Wednesday and caused it to sink, Kyiv’s military spy agency and armed forces said. There was no immediate comment from Russia, which said earlier that it had […]
Russian Orthodox Church appoints Putin’s spiritual adviser Metropolitan of Crimea
RNS The Russian Orthodox Church has installed one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies as the highest-ranking church leader in Crimea. “His Eminence of Simferopol and Crimea, the head of the Crimean Metropolis is to be His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov with his release from the administration of the Pskov Metropolis,” the […]
Russia, Ukraine confirm Kyiv hits Chonhar bridge to Crimea
Reuters Ukraine struck and damaged the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea and a smaller bridge linking the town of Henichesk with the peninsula’s north-east coast on Sunday, Moscow-appointed officials and Ukraine’s armed forces said. “The enemy launched a missile strike in the area of the Chonhar bridge in the north of Crimea,” […]
Zelenskiy says Russian bomb hits blood transfusion centre
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Russian guided aerial bomb hit a blood transfusion centre in the town of Kupiansk in eastern Kharkiv region late on Saturday. “There are dead and wounded,” he said on his Telegram channel. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Kupiansk is a railway hub fewer than 10 […]
Blasts on Crimea Bridge kill two, threaten Russian war supply lines
Kerch, Crimea Reuters Two people were killed and their daughter was seriously injured on Monday after blasts on the Crimean Bridge, a major supply artery for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine and a prestige project that was personally opened by President Vladimir Putin. Reuters images from the scene showed no traffic crossing the 19 kilometre […]