Officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea have announced a regional emergency after oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city. Fuel oil spilled out of two storm ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other ... which have forced it away from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk, meaning that the deal could see ...

FILE - People watch as Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech after signing treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia in the Moscow's Kremlin, during a meeting in Sevastopol ...

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless.

Sevastopol also was a preferred holiday destination ... Repressions against the Crimean Tatars continued under Putin, despite Moscow’s denials of discrimination. They strongly opposed the ...

Sevastopol also was a preferred holiday destination ... In 2014, a massive popular uprising in Ukraine forced pro-Moscow President Victor Yanukovich from office. Putin responded by sending troops ...