The Ukrainian military said Monday that the Security Service of Ukraine attacked a Russian facility in the Black Sea with the use of drones.

The gas and oil drilling platforms occupied by Russia since 2015 were targeted in Ukrainian sea and air assault.

With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks with Russia, Crimean Tatars are fighting to keep their language and practices alive in Ukraine.

As Ukraine marks the anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of Crimean Tatars more than eight decades ago, members of the ethnic minority group living on the Russian-occupied Black Sea peninsula are enduring a renewed campaign of repression.

The Crimean peninsula was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 solely to strengthen the personal power of the then first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev.

Sergei Tokarev, head of the military medical commission in the occupied peninsula died from gunshot wounds, according to reports.

"Some of them did the packing, others grabbed what they liked,"  a museum guard recalled in an interview with the Kyiv independent. What was unfolding was just part of what would amount to the looting of nearly 33,

A former advisor to Zelensky tells the Sun he doesn’t 'see how it’s possible to reclaim it militarily at this point, especially given that we won’t

May 19 marks the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide - the day when back in 1944 (from May 18-20), ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, at least 191k Crimean Tatars were forcibly deported to the Uzbek SSR,