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Crimean businesses are reporting a sharp drop in tourism as the Russian-occupied peninsula becomes increasingly militarized and Ukraine targets critical infrastructure.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the division of the fleet, the ship was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy and raised the Ukrainian flag on March 27, 1996.
FILE - A member of a pro-Russian self-defense force reaches for a knife to take down a Ukrainian navy flag at the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 19, 2014.
Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow coat of arms - taraq tamga, which is more than 100 years old. It symbolises the ...
Russian troops are using the Kerch ferry crossing in the temporarily occupied Crimea for logistics, but cannot 100% protect it from Ukrainian strikes, says Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesman for the ...
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry said it had conducted a special operation in Russian-annexed Crimea along with the Ukrainian Navy in a mission coinciding with the ...
A series of blasts hit a Russian military depot in the annexed peninsula Tuesday, suggesting a growing Ukrainian ability to strike deep behind enemy lines.
The Ukrainian military on Saturday claimed it sank a Russian submarine during at attack on the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in the occupied Crimean peninsula.
The Cold War-era submarine base was converted to a museum after Ukraine’s independence, but it seems its original purpose has been restored.
Pro-Russian supporters wave flags as they welcome the missile cruiser Moskva, a flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, as it enters Sevastopol's bay in Crimea on September 10, 2008.
FILE - A member of a pro-Russian self-defense force reaches for a knife to take down a Ukrainian navy flag at the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 19, 2014.