Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and Russia has spent centuries fighting for it ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

The mountainous peninsula is attached to the rest of Ukraine ... Crimea is slightly smaller than Belgium, with the city of Simferopol as its capital. The pre-war population was around 2 million.

According to Ukrainian media citing reports from Russia, unprecedented scenes took place at the Russian airport in Simferopol, Crimea. A Russian man driving a truck rammed a Su-25SM3 attack ...

Near the Hvardiiske military airfield close to occupied Simferopol in Crimea ... and manage logistics on the occupied ...

SIMFEROPOL, December 25. /TASS/. The first double-decker passenger train from Moscow arrived in the Crimean city of Simferopol on Thursday morning, a TASS correspondent reported. The train ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

SIMFEROPOL, February 5. /TASS/. A 10-ton monument to the so-called Big Three - Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill - has been installed in the Black Sea Peninsula of Crimea ...

Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea has been repeatedly ... given the illegal annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine by Moscow in 2014. He has been repeatedly mentioned as a likely ...