Crimean

After an internationally unrecognized referendum held during the occupation of Crimea suggested the peninsular supported being part of Russia, the Russian-backed Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine.

A powerful wintry storm battered southern Ukraine on Monday, Russian coastal defenses from some beaches on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

A total of 77 sailors were on board the large landing ship in the eastern Crimean port of Feodosia when it was targeted by cruise missiles, Russian-language Telegram channel Astra reported.

Big Ukrainian military successes in the Zaporizhzhia region could potentially enable its forces to break through the land bridge that connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula it annexed from Ukraine.

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever has been listed by the World Health Organisation as a “priority” recently after it was recently found in France.

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever is a viral disease transmitted primarily through ticks and livestock animals.

Dramatic video footage has shown a fuel tank ablaze in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol from a suspected drone attack.

How abt to admit that to blow Crimean bridge/civilian infrastructure/is act of state terrorism?

In late 2023, advancing Ukrainian forces were close enough to the narrow isthmus connecting Crimean to the mainland that the only Russian rail line carrying supplies to occupied Crimea was within range of GMLRS missile attacks.

NATO membership would afford Ukraine protection against a giant neighbor that annexed its Crimean Peninsula almost a decade ago and more recently seized vast swaths of land in the east and south.

Now Ukrainian forces are getting close to the narrow isthmus that connects Crimean to the mainland and the other access point, the Kerch Strait bridge in southeastern Crimea was also under constant attack.

One person was killed, two injured and a large landing ship called Novocherkassk was damaged in an overnight Ukrainian attack on the Crimean port city of Feodosia, Russia’s defence ministry and officials said.

Recent drone attacks have been aimed at targets from the Russian capital to the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula.

Russia’s defence ministry said its forces destroyed an unmanned Ukrainian boat being used in an attempt to attack the bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland.

Russia's Foreign Ministry “strongly condemned” the attempted attack on the Crimean bridge.

The derailment was caused by “interference by outsiders”, Crimean railways said in a statement.

The reservoir also supplies water to the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

This effort had begun soon after Russia gained control of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.

Ukraine’s military said its forces had “successfully” struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea navy in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Friday.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky argued this was a deliberate move to wipe out the Crimean Tatars, as well as those who opposed Russian occupation, and the war.