Since the days of Catherine the Great, Crimea has functioned as a Russian military stronghold and a place for faraway Moscow to project its power into the Black Sea. Even when independent Ukraine controlled the territory, Russia kept a huge naval presence in Sevastopol, the peninsula’s biggest city.

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned European politicians and other foreign nationals that they could be banned ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to come to a negotiated settlement in the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict with Russia. “President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to ...

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Petrol stations on the peninsula are out of fuel after hits to supply lines. Ukraine has also damaged bridges in Russian-held Kherson.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union banned investment in Crimea on Thursday, halting European help for Russian Black Sea oil and gas exploration and outlawing European cruise ships from calling at Crimean ports. The new measures, which EU governments ...

Four people were killed and fuel sales were suspended in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Moscow-backed authorities there said on Sunday, after a massive Ukrainian barrage hit the Black Sea peninsula.