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Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s ...
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The Crimean War Explained

The Crimean War was one of the defining conflicts of the 19th century, pitting Russia against an alliance of Britain, France, ...
To much of the world, Crimea is mostly synonymous with the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine — once a precious Black Sea ...
The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for ...
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "can end the war with Russia almost ...
Trump previously pressed Zelensky to acknowledge Russia's claim to Crimea as part of a US-brokered peace agreement to resolve ...
After the American Civil War ended in 1865, Secretary of State William Seward took up Russia’s longstanding offer to buy ...
Crimea, the contested peninsular region of southern Ukraine, has long changed hands between empires. Since the 1990s, ...
Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now, Presidents Trump and ...
Russia hoped to overthrow Ukraine's pro-Western government, but Moscow's war has dragged on for more than three years.
Though Vladimir Putin has led Russia to a number of grisly military triumphs, they may have misled him when planning the ...
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday, as the two sides ...