The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

A storm in the Black Sea damaged buildings and knocked down power lines, leaving more than half a million people without power in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine, Russian state media and Ukraine's energy ministry said

Ukraine confirmed this week that it had managed to maintain its positions along the left bank of the Dnipro River, which had been completely under Russian control. These successes suggest that a major Ukrainian counteroffensive, aimed at reclaiming Crimea, could soon be under way.

Russian officials say Ukraine has launched one of its biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the full-scale war began

The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region.

Rumours of tensions at the top, exhaustion after two years of fighting and frustration with allies dampen the mood in Kyiv

Ukrainian breakthrough across the Dnipro River could open up a new line to attack Crimea

Russian officials acknowledge presence of Ukrainian troops, reported to be engaged in heavy fighting

Ukraine says both vessels sank in Crimean bay – the Akula straight away and the Serna after Russian attempts to save it

Ukrainian naval drones sink two Russian landing boats in Crimea; Russian forces attempting to surround town of Avdiivka, Kyiv says

Russia claims to have killed about 500 Ukrainian soldiers in the region in the past week

Ukraine strikes FSB base in Skadovsk, Kherson region, say reports; private abortion clinics shut down in illegally occupied Crimea