Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.

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The Crimean Peninsula, located at the northern center of the Black Sea, dominates the region’s geography—hence Putin’s unlawful seizure in 2014. With Crimea, Russia effectively controls the ...

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...

(Reuters) - The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. The fate of Crimea and four provinces where Russia ...

The fate of Crimea and four provinces where Russia has captured territory since invading Ukraine in 2022 was widely thought to be on the agenda of talks on Tuesday between U.S. President Donald ...

The fate of Crimea and four provinces where Russia has captured territory since invading Ukraine in 2022 was widely thought to be on the agenda of talks on Tuesday between U.S. President Donald Trump ...