The United States and its allies have imposed broad economic penalties on Russia over its war in Ukraine. As the conflict ...

"Nobody is asking (President Volodymyr) Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia ...

Stuck in the middle of Ukraine and Russia, wedged between Putin and Zelensky, claims to the Crimea began centuries before the two presidents were alive. But what makes this peninsula so valuable?

The strategic peninsula of Crimea is crucial in US-led efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine. The peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, has long been coveted by Moscow ...

For over a decade, successive US administrations, including Trump’s first, decried Russia’s armed seizure of Crimea in 2014 and said they would never recognise the land grab – but did little ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Ever since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow’s spy agencies have been ... including in 2022, when then CIA director William Burns met Naryshkin in Ankara. Among the items on the agenda for ...

It was 2015, a year after Russia had seized Crimea and started a war in eastern ... the CIA referred to remarks by the agency’s director William Burns during an on-stage interview in October.

Burns as “Wild Bill,” the nickname of William J ... Maidan revolution had swept Russia’s ally from power in Kyiv and an enraged Putin had stealthily invaded Crimea.

But it isn’t just the cases of residents of Crimea that its Moscow-controlled judges are hearing these days. Since Russia launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ...

Russia knows Putin's Crimea bridge is "doomed," a Ukrainian official told The Economist. Dmitry Pletenchuk said Russia is using a new railway because it knows the bridge is in trouble. Ukraine has ...

CIA Director William Burns arrived in Cairo, Egypt, Friday for the latest round of high-stakes negotiations over a hostage and cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel, two U.S. officials and a ...