Russia has also carried out forced mobilization in Crimea and intensified the militarization of the peninsula.

Russia’s takeover of Crimea did not begin in 2014. In the second part of "Crimea: The War Before the War," the Kyiv ...

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Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral ...

The Crimean Peninsula is located in southern Ukraine, jutting out into the Black Sea. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started there in February 2014, when pro-Russian gunmen seized government buildings ...

The Crimean Parliament overwhelmingly approved a "declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," saying it will declare total autonomy from Ukraine if voters opt to secede in ...

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 is now a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on law, brotherhood, and the romance of reunification in a speech to a joint session of Russia's parliamentary houses today, before joining Crimean leaders in a ...

WASHINGTON — Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the ...

Crimea, a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, has become the focal point of escalating tensions between Russia and the West, sparking a fresh dispute between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian ...

On March 16, 2014, an illegal referendum was held in Crimea as unmarked Russian soldiers, supported by some of the peninsula’s ethnic Russian population, seized public buildings and military ...

The UN's nuclear agency has financed Russian state scientific research in Crimea since Moscow's seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, an RFE/RL investigation has found -- funding that critics ...