Newsweek's map below illustrates where the protests against Putin's allies are occurring in Europe. Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via email for comment.

Yet, Crimea always needed these same Ukrainian dryland territories to its north for its own development. The close geographical and historical connection between Crimea and Ukraine’s mainland was the ...

While left-wingers across Eastern Europe were alarmed, some left-wing politicians elsewhere on the continent expressed their support for the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics.” Still, ...

The ancestors of Europeans first settled in Crimea about 37,000 years ago, DNA analysis on two ancient individuals reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Russia has renewed its long-stalled push for unification with Belarus, using the country as a launchpad for its war against Ukraine and a hardening bulwark against NATO rivals to the west.

The next stage came 8 years later when the Kremlin officially recognized its puppet formations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions as states “independent” of Ukraine. Subsequently, Russia announced ...

Russia-Ukraine war It’s too late to take Crimea from Putin Retaking Crimea from Russia is as unlikely as freeing post-WWII Eastern Europe from Russian domination. Max Hastings Apr 9, 2023 – 2.57pm ...

He worked in the Polish diplomatic service for 9 years, having been posted to the EU institutions, Malta and Russia. His research interests include politics of memory in Central and Eastern Europe and ...

NATO is back defending against its original nemesis, but this time it's different Baltic region's new NATO members vulnerable from land and sea Mines, container ship accident, could seal them off ...

Russia's war on Ukraine Eight years after the annexation of Crimea, Russia recognized eastern Ukraine's separatist regions Donetsk and Luhansk as "independent states" and started war on Ukraine.

On Mar. 7, 2022, an Italian Air Force KC-767A tanker carried out the type’s first mission over Eastern Europe in support of fighter jets tasked with NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission.