More than ten Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighters arrived at Belbek airfield near Sevastopol in the annexed Crimea on December 22. The redeployment of combat aircraft came amid rising tensions following the November 25 incident, when Russia captured three Ukrainian warships in the Black Sea ...
The International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands) qualified the annexation of Crimea by Russia as an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. All actions of the Kremlin in the occupied territory are being studied for crimes against humanity, writes “Observer”. This decision is contained in the report of the International Criminal ...
The United States imposed new sanctions on three individuals and nine organizations in connection with the annexation of Crimea by Russia and fomenting the conflict in Donbas. This was stated by the special representative of the US State Department for the situation in Ukraine Kurt Volker, writes Mail.ru. “Today the United States is imposing financial sanctions, new sanctions related to Crimea ...
On September 25, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, the US Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volcker, handed to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko a declaration of the US State Department on the non-recognition of the annexation of Crimea by Russia. “It is a great honor for me to present President Poroshenko with a copy of the Crimean Declaration, signed by the Secretary of State ...
US President Donald Trump told the GXNUMX leaders that Crimea is Russian because everyone who lives there speaks Russian. This is reported by BuzzFeed, citing two sources in diplomatic circles. The sources spoke about this on condition of anonymity, ...
The United States condemned the construction and opening of a bridge across the Kerch Strait between Russia and the annexed Crimea, which was carried out without the approval of the Ukrainian government. State Department spokesman Heather Nauert said this during a press conference, writes Voice of America. She recalled that Crimea ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the official opening ceremony of the Crimean Bridge. The head of the Kremlin personally drove across the bridge at the wheel of a KamAZ, leading a column of 35 vehicles, including dump trucks, truck cranes, cement trucks, cisterns and other equipment that was used in the construction of the bridge ...
The Arbitration Court in The Hague ruled that Russia was responsible for violating the rights of Ukrainian investors in the Crimean peninsula and must pay them compensation for losses due to the annexation of Crimea. According to court documents, it is about the amount of 159 million dollars, writes “New ...
Recently, information has emerged that Russians who visited Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula in March 2014 and wrote about it on their social networks are being refused when applying for a US nonimmigrant visa. RTVI asked for clarification ...
Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Igor Tenyukh spoke about how the participants of the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) on February 28, 2014, including former heads of the Ukrainian government Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, blocked the decision to protect Crimea ...