In July 2023, a powerful explosion damaged the Kerch Bridge—the only direct link between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea. Traffic was halted, supplies disrupted, and questions immediately followed.

Eight men who were handed life sentences by Russian judges over an attack on a bridge linking the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to Russia issued a joint appeal to be freed on Tuesday, ...

Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C. Reynolds, ...

EADaily, February 8th, 2026. The scandalous owner of the sex empire Jeffrey Epstein considered Crimea as an island of ...

A force of the AFU's unmanned systems hit an oil terminal in Russia's Krasnodar region. Ukrainian drones also destroyed ...

A wartime boom in Russia has given way to sluggish growth, tax hikes and squeezed public services. Will it affect the conflict in Ukraine?

In the nearly four years since Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has repeatedly confounded expectations. A conflict that many analysts anticipated would be short and ...

Recent U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi failed to bridge the divide over territory, with Kyiv refusing to back down in the Donbas.

Another round of US-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next week in Geneva, days ahead of the fourth anniversary ...

President J.D. Vance visits Armenia and Azerbaijan to advance U.S.-brokered peace, the Trump Route transit project, and U.S.

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