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 ...

Crimea has emerged as the central obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. But for the strategic peninsula, being at the nexus of great power competition is nothing new. At the northern end of the Black ...

Due to Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries in Crimea, the fuel shortage has worsened even further. How the Armed Forces of Ukraine are destroying Russia’s oil refining and whether a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Reuters) -The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since ...

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War runs like a faultline through this week’s headlines. Ukraine is on the brink of “disaster” as Russian troops mass in Crimea. Ceasefire in the Gulf brings a swift military campaign to a close.

Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshchenko was a commander in Russia’s Northern Fleet who had previously participated in the seizure of Crimea in 2014. A senior Russian military commander was killed in ...