Crimea

Zelensky has rejected ceding any Ukrainian land. Russia currently controls roughly 20 per cent of Ukraine’s territory, including Crimea.

Ukraine damages major Russian landing ship in Crimea attack

According to the Russian defence ministry, Ukraine deployed air-launched missiles to target the Crimean port of Feodosia, and the Novocherkassk major landing ship was destroyed.

Six drones downed in Crimea, no victims: Governor

"During the past night, six drones were shot down or blocked ... in different parts of Crimea," Sergei Aksyonov wrote on Telegram, adding "there were no victims or injured".

What's behind the central bank’s hoarding of gold

The freezing of Russia’s forex reserves by the US has led to several central banks increasing the share of gold in their assets

Drone causes fire at Crimea oil reservoir : Report

Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of the Black Sea peninsula's port city of Sevastopol, posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel.

Russian-annexed Crimea showers Syria with wheat, Ukraine cries foul

Wheat sent to Syria from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea increased 17-fold this year to just over 500,000 tonnes, previously unreported Refinitiv shipping data shows, to make up nearly a third of the country's total imports of the grain.

Vladimir Putin says power grid strikes were in response to Crimea drone attack

Putin told a news conference on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine corridors that grain ships transited under the U.N.-brokered deal.

Russia says it recovers drones used in Black Sea fleet attack in Crimea

Russia said it had repelled the attack but that the ships targeted were involved in ensuring the grain corridor out of Ukraine's Black Sea ports.

Elon Musk on Russia using nukes: 'And then we will have World War lll'

Elon Musk said that to Russia, losing Crimea would be like the USA losing Hawaii and Pearl Harbor.

The week in pictures: Stunning images from around the world

From Russia-Ukraine war to college football games, here's what happened across the world last week.

Ukraine claims to shoot down several Russian missiles

The Russian strikes, in retaliation for an attack on a bridge linking Russia and occupied Crimea, did not appear to seriously damage the Ukrainian military’s ability to wage war, analysts said.

Vladimir Putin to meet top security officials as Crimea bridge blast hits prestige

“The authors, the executors, the commissioners are Ukraine’s secret services,” Putin said at a meeting with Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia’s Investigative Commission, according to a transcript posted on the Kremlin website.

Large fire reported on key bridge linking Russia to Crimea

RIA-Novosti and the Tass news agency quoted local Russian official Oleg Kryuchkov as saying an object thought to be a fuel storage tank caught fire and that traffic has been stopped on the bridge.

Miss Crimea 2022 fined for singing Ukrainian patriotic song

A video of Olga Valeyeva -- who won the Miss Crimea 2022 beauty pageant -- and a friend singing popular Ukrainian song "Chervona Kalyna" had surfaced on Instagram. Valeyeva was fined 40,000 rubles, while her friend was sent to jail for 10 days.

Elon Musk sets off uproar in Ukraine by tweeting his ‘peace’ plan

Elon Musk also launched a Twitter poll asking citizens of occupied areas of eastern Ukraine recently annexed by the Kremlin -- plus Crimea, which Moscow took in 2014 -- to decide if they want to live in Russia or Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine will take back Crimea when it chooses

Zelenskiy made the comments at a news conference in Kyiv after the leaders of dozens of countries and international organisations took part - most of them by video - in Crimea Platform, a forum hosted by Ukraine focused on the peninsula.

As attacks mount in Crimea, Kremlin faces rising domestic pressures

Crimea is where czars and Politburo chairmen kept vacation homes, and where Putin is said to have built a palatial, multibillion-dollar estate.

Blasts hit Russian base in Crimea, Ukraine targets supply lines

The blasts on Tuesday engulfed an ammunition depot at a military base in the north of the Crimean peninsula, disrupting trains and forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people from a nearby village, according to Russian officials and news agencies.

Watch: Ukrainian artist turns anti-tank obstacles into 'cheerful' pieces of art

"I paint anti-tank hedgehogs because I want our Ukrainian culture to sound loud, modern, relevant and necessarily cheerful," Varvara Logvin said. "Especially at a time when the world is paying close attention to Ukraine."

More explosions rock Russian-controlled Crimea

The Russian Defence Ministry said there were no serious casualties from the blasts in the northern Crimean village of Mayskoye, state-owned news agency RIA reported. The agency also reported a fire at a transformer substation 20 km away.

Ukraine suggests partisans behind blasts at Russian airbase in Crimea

The adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy also suggested Russian incompetence as a possible cause of Tuesday's blasts. They killed one civilian and injured eight, according to the health department in Russia-annexed Crimea.

Loud explosions heard near Russian military airbase in Crimea - Reuters

Several loud explosions and seen black smoke rising from the direction of a Russian military airbase at Novofedorivka in western Crimea.

Rouble to rogue ratio: Why war is the best investment

Russia: “Data is the new oil”. What we are doing in Ukraine is merely enforcing our data protection in line with European GDPR rules.

European Union extends Crimea sanctions for another year

The sanctions were imposed in the wake of Russia's annexation of the strategic Black Sea peninsula in March 2014.

Ukraine claims its dolphin army died after refusing Russian takeover

Many countries around the world train sea animals to recover objects at sea and detect mines and other naval hazards, as well as alert officers and help in rescuing people overboard