Energy shortages have continued to plague Sevastopol, the largest city in Russian-controlled Crimea, following repeated, intensified Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula.

Authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea on Friday declared an "emergency situation" in a bid to ease the fallout from increasing Ukrainian aerial attacks on the peninsula. Russian air defences shot down 660 Ukrainian drones overnight,

When Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, it looked like an internal Soviet decision with little long-term consequence. But after the Soviet Union collapsed, that same move became one of the most contested territorial questions in Europe.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to come to a negotiated settlement in the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict with Russia. “President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to ...

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A massive Ukrainian barrage in Russian-occupied Crimea killed four people, Moscow-backed authorities there said on Sunday, adding that fuel sales at Crimean petrol stations were subsequently suspended.