Crimea

Europe News

Ukraine launches 40-day operation to ‘pressure Russia to end the war’

Kyiv announced a 40-day operation aimed at “pressuring Russia to end its war," prompting the Russian-installed occupation authorities in Crimea to announce a regional state of emergency on Friday.

26 June 2026

Europe News

Ukraine says key Crimea rail bridge ‘no longer exists’ after drone strikes

Ukraine said it struck a major blow to Russia’s grip on the occupied Crimean peninsula, announcing the destruction of a key railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal in a series of strikes. The bridge is the “first one” to be eliminated, Kyiv’s troops said.

23 June 2026

Europe News

Inside Ukraine’s campaign to turn occupied Crimea into an 'island'

No petrol sales for civilians, a rolling power-outage schedule and a cancelled tourism season: what is happening in Russia-annexed Crimea amid Kyiv’s campaign to cut off the peninsula from Moscow’s control?

22 June 2026

Europe News

Russian-occupied Crimea suspends petrol sales amid fuel crisis

Kyiv's targeting of Russia's energy industry has sparked a major fuel crisis in Crimea, with long queues for petrol stations and limited supply.

21 June 2026

Europe News

Crimea will turn into an island, Ukraine’s defence minister says

Ukraine is methodically cutting off ground lines of communication for Russian forces into occupied Crimea, isolating the peninsula from Moscow’s forces and any supplies from Russia.

18 June 2026

Europe News

Ukraine's strikes are methodically cutting Crimea off from Russia

Ukraine has significantly intensified its strikes on military and energy sites in and around Russia-occupied Crimea in what is seen as Kyiv’s deliberate strategy of cutting the annexed Ukrainian peninsula off from Russia.

12 June 2026

Europe News

Ukrainian strikes start fires at oil facilities in Russia and Crimea

Daily Russian attacks have intensified in recent months and Ukraine has hit back with its own drone strikes further into Russian territory, saying these are mainly against military and energy facilities.

9 June 2026

Poland

Ukraine demands extradition of Russian archaeologist from Poland

The authorities in Kyiv have requested the extradition from Poland of Alexander Butyagin, who was detained in Warsaw in early December over conducting archaeological excavations in Russian-occupied Crimea.

23 December 2025

Culture news

Putin awards Order of Friendship award to German pianist Justus Frantz

Pianist and composer Justus Frantz has regularly divided opinion in Germany's classical music world over his close relationship with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Now he's set disapproving tongues wagging again within the industry by accepting Moscow's Order of Friendship award.

5 November 2025

Ukraine

Ukraine unveils sea drone it says can strike anywhere in Black Sea

The range of the "Sea Baby" has been expanded from 1,000 kilometres to 1,500 kilometres and it can carry up to 2,000 kilograms of payload.

23 October 2025

Ukraine

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike resort in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claimed that for the first time, Kyiv forces hit two Russian amphibious aircraft in occupied Crimea. Russia-installed occupation authorities say the resort area has been hit.

22 September 2025

Ukraine

Ukraine strikes five Russian fighter jets at annexed Crimea airfield

Ukraine’s Security Service struck an airfield in Saky in annexed Crimea overnight on Monday, hitting five fighter jets, which Russia uses for its regular attacks on Ukraine.

4 August 2025

Europe News

Ukrainian journalist freed from Russian detention in occupied Crimea

After spending more than four years in Russian custody on espionage charges that he denies, Vladyslav Yesypenko was released on Sunday.

23 June 2025

Ukraine

Ukraine strikes Kerch bridge in Crimea with underwater explosives

Kyiv has hit the Kerch bridge in Crimea, illegally built by Russia after the unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula. Ukraine’s Security Service released the video of the attack, showing the explosion underwater.

3 June 2025

World News

Crimea is Russia’s training ground for colonisation, Kyiv envoy says

There is one topic on which Kyiv and Moscow will never agree, and yet, for both sides, this point is of the utmost importance — Crimea. Olha Kuryshko, the Ukrainian president’s permanent representative in Crimea, told Euronews that Russia implemented its 2014 techniques on all occupied territories.

16 May 2025

USA

Trump claims Zelenskyy could be ready to give up Crimea to Russia

The US president blames his Democratic predecessors for Russia's illegal occupation of the Ukrainian territory, which he dismisses as a "giveaway".

28 April 2025