Crimea has become a central issue in President Trump’s proposed peace plan, which includes United States recognition of the peninsula as part of Russia — a stance President Zelensky firmly rejects.

Moreover, allowing Russia to retain Crimea would be a death knell for the Crimean Tatars — the peninsula’s indigenous people — who have already faced systemic repression, imprisonment ...

Trump says Crimea will remain with Russia as part of any future peace deal, urging both sides to end the bloodshed. He also criticized Putin for continued strikes on Ukraine despite ceasefire efforts.

Crimea was made part of Ukraine in the 1950s, and left with it in the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991. But Trump said in an interview published on Friday that "Crimea will stay with Russia".

Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it. The peninsula was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first ...

Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv — and most of the world — never recognized Moscow's annexation of the strategic peninsula, which ...

Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv — and most of the world — never recognized Moscow’s annexation of the strategic peninsula ...

A Russian Crimea could cut off American and European access to Central Asia, while benefiting China. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio held discussions in Paris with European and Ukrainian ...

There is, however, an older, pre-Arian metaphysical meaning of the symbol: The Absolute that is omnipresent in the balance of all energies which have two poles – positive and negative, heaven and ...