Ukraine and the US are to hold crunch peace talks in Saudi Arabia from tomorrow following a tense few weeks in which ...

That changed overnight when Russia seized Crimea in March that year on the pretense of protecting the rights of Russian citizens and speakers in the region at the time. A map showing Ukrainian ...

A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base ...

Russian forces have taken back more than 800 square km (309 square miles) of territory from Ukraine in the Kursk region of ...

Newsweek's map below illustrates what territories Ukraine could swap with Russia after giving Moscow ... five Ukrainian territories including Crimea in 2014, as well as Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk ...

It also borders its giant neighbor Russia to the east. 2014 invasion and Crimea annexation Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2014, seizing Crimea, a peninsula extending from its southern coast.

The territory provides proximity to Arctic shipping lanes, which China and Russia seek to dominate ... legitimate its own illegal occupation of Crimea and simultaneously paint the U.S. as ...

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