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

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

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 ...

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

Ukraine’s future may well have changed dramatically this week after the US held its first talks on ending the war with Russia.

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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