The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

Oil spill in Crimea's Sevastopol triggers regional emergency and ongoing cleanup efforts after tanker incident in Kerch Strait.

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea have announced a regional emergency after oil was detected on the coast of Sevastopol

One dead while second tanker in distress in Black Sea near occupied Crimea. What we know on day 1,027

Russia is already at war with the west. It has been so since its occupation of Crimea in 2014, when Russia sought to secure its access to Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet and as a potential lever of influence over Kyiv’s political direction.

Researchers say the finds are from aristocratic burials between the fourth and sixth centuries.

President says Ukraine would not legally acknowledge invaded areas as Russian in exchange for peace; Kyiv says embassies fell for Russian ‘psychological attack’. What we know on day 1,002

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's stance on occupied territories, Crimea, and U.S. military assistance in conflict.

Zimin, a critic of his native country’s invasions of Crimea and Ukraine, leaves behind a wife and three children

A Ukrainian source accuses Valery Trankovsky of committing war crimes by ordering missile attacks on civilians