Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine - and the role it plays in the war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago ...
Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
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'Crimea is dying': Zelenskyy recalls his conversation with Trump about peninsula
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump discussed the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. Trump asked why ...
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A Crimean Tatar Feminist Perspective: An inquiry from within on the “Situation” of Indigenous women and the war in Ukraine
This unfair and unjust war of choice inflicted by the Russian Federation in February of 2022 against Ukraine and its people ...
Explainer-Where Is Crimea and Why Is It Contested?
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 ...
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Crimea Has Been a Battleground and a Playground. Why It's Coveted by Both Russia and Ukraine
Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century. It briefly regained independence as a Tatar republic two centuries later before being ...
Where is Crimea and why is it contested?
The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.