Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea

A Russian court has convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea ...
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‘Crimea will stay with Russia,’ Trump says as he seeks end to war in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia,” the latest example of the U.S. leader pressuring Ukraine to make ...
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Crimea is a focus of discussions to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Here's why it's so coveted

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 is now a ...
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What to know about Crimea, the peninsula Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War. It ...
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Krushchev was rescuing Crimea when he made it Ukrainian — it must remain so

Even Ukraine’s staunchest allies sometimes waver, tempted to suggest that Kyiv concede Crimea to Russia as the long-running war there wages on. They often fall prey to a persistent myth: that Crimea ...