Etiket: Crimea
Russia shoots down Ukrainian missile over eastern Crimea, but unclear how Ukraine got it there: “Kiev has no missiles with that range”
Russia shot down a missile over eastern Crimea fired from Ukraine. Russian state press agencies report this on the authority of Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed head of annexed Crimea. However,…
King: ‘We didn’t know that Putin would invade Crimea a month later’
When he had a beer with Vladimir Putin in early 2014, no one could have known that the Russian president would invade Crimea a month later. This is what King…
Several explosions observed in occupied Crimea: Ukraine says it has disabled train with Russian cruise missiles
Several explosions were witnessed tonight in Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Ukraine. According to local sources, the blasts took place in the northern city of Dzhankoy. There is still a lot…
Putin visits Crimea exactly nine years after annexation
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived on the peninsula in southern Ukraine. It has been exactly nine years since Russia annexed Crimea. During the surprise visit, Putin visited, among other…
Putin makes surprise visit to Crimea for ninth anniversary of annexation | Abroad
Putin turned up in the city of Sebastol, where the ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet are docked. Here he attended an art school together with the governor of the…
Ukraine is aiming for a spring offensive, according to military intelligence: Crimea must also be recaptured
Ukraine’s deputy chief of military intelligence, Vadym Skibizkyj, expects his army to launch a counter-offensive against the Russian occupiers this spring. He said this in an interview with German media…
Russia ‘nationalises’ Ukrainian assets in Crimea to fund war | Abroad
“Criminal parliamentarians supported the bill on the nationalization of property of Ukrainian oligarchs, assets of banks and factories operating in the republic,” reports the regional parliament, installed by Moscow after…
Why is Putin moving his nuclear weapons to Crimea and Belarus? Professor Luc De Vos: “That really only means one thing”
Russia will station nuclear weapons in Crimea and Belarus. Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Moscow has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons. Is the nuclear threat reaching a…
Angela Merkel admits mistakes in her Russia policy: “Reaction to annexation of Crimea was not tough enough” | Abroad
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledges that Germany “should have reacted more quickly to Russia’s aggressiveness”. In an interview with the German newspaper ‘Die Zeit’, Merkel said the war in…
Interparliamentary summit emphasizes that Crimea is Ukrainian | Abroad
During the summit, the presidents of the Croatian and Ukrainian parliaments, Croatian Prime Minister and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski addressed the summit (via video). Speaker of the US House of…