On March 16, 2014, an illegal referendum was held in Crimea as unmarked Russian soldiers, supported by some of the peninsula’s ethnic Russian population, seized public buildings and military ...

Former President Obama disagreed with then-Vice President Biden that Russia should "pay in blood and money" after it invaded Crimea in 2014, according to a new book.

Seizing Crimea was Putin’s original reason for the war, initiated by the Kremlin way back in 2014, and the Russian president has invested the peninsula with enormous symbolic value.

Former President Obama on Thursday defended his response to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, saying that circumstances were different then compared to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine ...

The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 marked a pivotal moment in modern European history, setting the stage for the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine that resumed in 2022. This ...

Pullout represents painful setback for the Kremlin, which seized Crimea in 2014 The bulk of Russia’s naval vessels in Crimea were moved to Novorossiysk, a Russian port on the Black Sea.