As of 06:00 am on Friday, July 11, the aggressor country of russia had not deployed its warships to the Black and Azov ...

The situation in the Azov-Black Sea region remains relatively stable. Despite the Russian presence, no new Kalibr missile ...

According to the Berdiansk Municipal Military Administration, Russia's Federal Subsoil Resources Agency (Rosnedra) has ...

Russian forces are planning to begin gas extraction in the Sea of Azov, with Russia’s Federal Agency for Subsoil Use claiming ...

Azov’s military and political wings formally separated in 2016, when the far-right National Corps party was founded. The Azov battalion had by then been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard.

Azov Regiment veterans, whose banners carry an emblem derived from a Nazi symbol, the Wolfsangel, march in Kyiv in 2019. Maxim Dondyuk for TIME.

The Azov Battalion rose to prominence in 2014, at the start of the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The country's armed forces, which at the time were woefully unprepared for battle, were ...

Russia and Ukraine signed and ratified a treaty in 2003 and 2004 that included stipulations that the Sea of Azov, a body of water of about 15,000 square miles, is a historically internal water of ...

The Azov Battalion was formed in 2014, the same year Russian-backed rebels began seizing territory across Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, and Russia invaded and captured Crimea.

Azov’s military and political wings formally separated in 2016, when the far-right National Corps party was founded. The Azov battalion had by then been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard.