SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region ...

SIMFEROPOL, June 26. /TASS/. Ukrainian border service does not let trucks carrying foodstuffs cross the Ukrainian-Russian border into the territory of Crimea, the Crimean branch of the border service ...

After over a decade under Russian occupation, Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula is a less free place – especially for those who dare to oppose the Kremlin. But it isn’t just the cases of residents of Crimea ...

In the run-up to presidential elections in which national security is a top issue, Ukraine is strengthening the border with Russian-annexed Crimea and with the breakaway Transnistrian region of ...

WASHINGTON — Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow's relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the ...