The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

Russian leader’s rambling speech focuses on western sins and leaves key Ukraine questions unanswered

Russian President Vladimir Putin will proclaim the annexation of four Ukrainian regions at a Kremlin ceremony on Friday, a major escalation in the seven-month war. Ukraine and the West have denounced the moves - as they did with Moscow's 2014 seizure of Crimea - as illegal seizures after what they…

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday released his evening video address in which he said the world would condemn the 'pseudo-referendums' being carried out in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions were widely seen as a prelude to…

A remote-controlled boat which was thought to be packed with explosives washed up in Omega Bay, near the Crimean port of Sevastopol, with Russian forces confirming they have now destroyed the weapon

Voting began on Friday in four Ukrainian regions mostly held by Russian forces, the start of a plan by President Vladimir Putin annex a big chunk of Ukraine in what the West says is violation of international law that significantly escalates the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has alarmed many in the West by mobilising 300,000 troops and issuing threats of nuclear strikes. The Mirror has looked at six possible outcomes in the war in Ukraine

Russia has given its support to plans by separatists it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for annexation.

Vladimir Putin’s naval commanders have moved submarines away from Crimea after Ukrainian attacks deep into the peninsula, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday. They argued that the Russian president’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was partly to ensure a base there for his Black Sea Fleet but this aim had…

Russia on Tuesday announced plans by separatists in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the formal annexation of swathes of territory after nearly seven months of war with its neighbour, a former Soviet republic.