A Ukrainian woman, Olha Kurtmalaieva, has endured cancer and war while fighting to bring her husband home from Russian ...

Russian-appointed gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov is increasingly afraid for his life in temporarily occupied Crimea. He is now ...

The attack damaged "critical and expensive components" of Russia's S-400 Triumph air defense system, including two 92N2E ...

A lion has attacked collaborator Oleg Zubkov at the Taigan Safari Park he founded in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Crimean ...

Ukrainian Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko was released Sunday after more than four years in Russian custody in Crimea, according to RFE/RL.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree imposing sanctions on individuals and legal entities cooperating with Russian ...

In a conversation with NV journalist Andriy Pavlechko, Kolb recounts the questions Russian border guards asked her, why she never “betrayed” Ukraine, and what she told her Lviv friends who visited her ...

Crimea became part of Russia within the Soviet Union until 1954, when it was handed to Ukraine, also then a Soviet Republic, by Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian.

With an area of 27,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles), Crimea is slightly smaller than Belgium, with the city of Simferopol as its capital. Population The pre-war population was around 2 million.

Mykola, apparently, had been taken from Ukraine to Crimea in April 2022, but was not formally charged until the following September. This was, in Savva’s view, a classic “frozen” case.

Moscow's troops seized control of Crimea in 2014 through a covert invasion, and then used it to help launch its full-scale assault on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

He was held with other hostages in Simferopol, Crimea’s administrative capital, and tortured for a week. His naked, bruised body was found on March 15, head wrapped in plastic, eyes poked out. A ...