The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

Ukrainian president calls attack on Kupiansk community a ‘war crime’

Air raid alerts were heard in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia while a blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv was reportedly targeted

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday said Russian forces struck a blood transfusion centre in northeast Ukraine. The news came shortly after a Russian missile attack reportedly hit an aeronautics manufacturing facility in western Ukraine. Earlier, Ukrainian drones in the Kerch Strait hit a Russian tanker, briefly halting traffic on the…

An ‘extremely fierce battle’ in the eastern city of Bakhmut and explosions reported near key Crimean bridge

Russian Defence Ministry on Friday said that it repelled separate Ukrainian drone attacks on Crimea and Black Sea naval base in southwest Russia, CNN reported. Read further on Dynamite News :

Russia had accused Ukraine of attacking its Black Sea navy base in the port of Novorossiysk with sea drones

Russian shelling has damaged a landmark church in the city of Kherson that once held the remains of the renowned 18th-century commander who exerted Russian control through the southeast parts of moedern Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula

Ukrainians in occupied territories who refuse Russian passports face threats, intimidation and possible detention or deportation, Yale study says

A resistance group of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group native to the Russian-occupied peninsula, is now a prominent player in the Ukraine war.

Of the 8 million Ukrainian refugees registered in Europe, some 1.6 million are now in Poland. They have joined another 1.5-2 million who arrived after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014. Ukraine’s two main languages, Ukrainian and Russian, are now heard everywhere in Poland.

The Crimean Peninsula's balmy beaches have been vacation spots for Russian czars and Soviet general secretaries