Search Tip: Use quotes to find results containing your phrase shortly before Crimea was annexed by Russia memories of Russiaճ annexation are fresh and resentments runs high leaving the countryճ president few choices on the latest American peace plan Juneau’s 5% sales tax on groceries is among the highest in the… Continue reading According to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, with cuts… Continue reading Why have Juneau city leaders supported an extensive list of municipal sales… Continue reading Argentina was a 20th-century economic powerhouse, considered too modern and successful to… Continue reading I strongly urge Sen. Sullivan to live up to his, and our… Continue reading Back in November 2024, following the election, I noticed that the Pride… Continue reading In response to Win Gruening’s latest column (“Juneau taxpayers fight back”), Gruening… Continue reading Early Thursday morning, Russia fired 70 missiles directly at Kyiv. And sent… Continue reading Why have Juneau city leaders supported an extensive list of municipal sales… Argentina was a 20th-century economic powerhouse considered too modern and successful to… According to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office Juneau’s 5% sales tax on groceries is among the highest in the… Daily Weather Report Powered By: People cross the street near the Juma-Jami Mosque and the Saint Nicholas cathedral in Yevpatoriya Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Stories you've missed since your last login: Recommended stories based on your interests: the focus of fresh tensions between US President Donald Trump and his Ukranian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 in the first act of the countries' ongoing war Washington's plan to end the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine includes the US recognizing Russian control of the peninsula -- a prospect unacceptable to Kyiv The annexation of Crimea in March 2014 sparked the first wave of Western sanctions against Russia and caused a surge in tensions in Moscow's relations with Ukraine as well as with the United States and Europe The Black Sea peninsula has a rugged landscape and beautiful beaches as well as ancient remains and architecture reflecting a diverse history of settlers including Greeks Soviet and US leaders that divided up Europe at the end of World War II Its warm temperate climate makes it also a wine-growing region transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 as a “gift” to commemorate 300 years of a treaty between the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Russian tsardom But this was largely a symbolic move since Ukraine and Russia were both republics of the USSR A year after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Kyiv gave Crimea the status of an autonomous republic in a bid to prevent separatist tendencies among its mainly Russian-speaking population Russia gained the right to station its naval fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol extending its sphere of operations in the Black Sea and beyond towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East the Crimean issue poisoned relations between Moscow and Kyiv for years Some regional officials regularly challenged Ukraine's right to be in charge there After pro-Western authorities came to power in Ukraine following the Maidan revolution in February 2014 clashes erupted in Crimea between pro-Moscow and pro-Kyiv supporters A heavily armed pro-Russian commando unit seized the parliament building supported by thousands of uniformed personnel deployed across the peninsula in balaclavas and without military insignia quickly took control of public buildings and besieged Ukrainian military bases President Vladimir Putin only later acknowledged that they were Russian soldiers On March 16 Russia held a hastily-organised referendum in Crimea It said that 97 percent voted “yes” to Crimea becoming part of Russia The vote was declared null and void by Kyiv and the West The treaty has still not been recognised as valid except by a handful of countries including Afghanistan nor have some Moscow-allied countries such as Belarus and Kazakhstan Britain and Canada adopted initial sanctions against Russia embargoes targeting specific sectors and a ban on investments in Crimea which covered 4.5 percent of Ukraine's territory becoming an autonomous republic with its own government and institutions subordinate to Moscow The city of Sevastopol was granted a special separate status like the Russian capital and the northwestern city of Saint Petersburg The ruble replaced the Ukrainian hryvnia currency and the peninsula switched to Moscow time including some banks and telephone operators Western and Ukrainian tourism to the region slumped replaced by hordes of Russian and Belarusian holidaymakers Local authorities are massively distributing Russian passports to the population a Muslim minority who voted overwhelmingly against the annexation the representative body of the Crimean Tatar community sparking a wave of arrests and forced exile the peninsula has been linked to mainland Russia by the Kerch road bridge It has been struck and damaged by Ukrainian forces numerous times Tel: +603-7784 6688      Fax: +603-7785 2625 Partisans locate Russian radar base in Crimea. Ukraine's defense forces already attacked this target, informs the Telegram channel of the partisan movement ATESH while scouting the western coast of Crimea identified a radar base in the village of Uutne near Yevpatoriya," the message states the military base houses the 5N84A and Oborona-14 radar systems which monitor airspace and transmit data to command posts for rapid threat response plays a crucial role in controlling the airspace over the Black Sea and coordinating the occupiers' military operations "Destroying this base would be a significant blow to Russian occupiers and would enable Ukraine's Defense Forces to more effectively strike enemy targets in Crimea," the partisans believe Partisans have repeatedly conducted reconnaissance of this base and shared information with Ukraine's Defense Forces Ukrainian forces previously targeted the radar base in Yevpatoriya on January 4 Earlier, Ukrainian partisans also identified the Protivnik-GE radar station located southwest of the temporarily occupied Djankoy airfield The base hosts 5N84A and Oborona-14 radar systems crucial for monitoring Black Sea airspace and coordinating russian military operations ATESH highlights that this radar base is integral to russian operations overseeing airspace across the Black Sea and coordinating military activities The partisans emphasize that neutralizing this facility would deliver a critical blow to the russian occupiers significantly impairing their airspace control and bolstering Ukraine's Defense Forces in targeting enemy positions across Crimea Ukrainian Defense Forces have already attacked this site building on earlier reconnaissance efforts by partisans in the region Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked a remarkable facility on the russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula the center of long-distance space communication which is located near Yevpatoria in the village of Vitine The hit is evidenced by a number of videos filmed by locals who mentioned powerful explosions and captured a large-scale fire on their cameras, Crimean Wind reports There is also data from satellite monitoring of fires provided by NASA it indicates the presence of fire foci precisely on the territory of the space communication center Unofficial sources suggest ATACMS ballistic missiles were used the said Center for Long-Range Space Communications is quite a unique object for the russian federation It is known under the names of the 40th Separate Command and Measurement Complex Ukraine's National Center for Control and Testing of Space Vehicles was located there russia handed the complex to its Aerospace Forces and began the modernization of the facility reports stated the center had received 10 new systems and the upgrading was still proceeding The initial plan was to spend 1.8 billion rubles on the reconstruction of one radio telescope alone: at the exchange rate of that time in addition to providing communication with space vehicles was also used for hosting other sophisticated radio equipment the russians placed a Krasukha electronic warfare system on the territory of this center which was designed to shield the complex from attacks like the one Ukraine has just effectively done This is not the first successful Ukrainian attack on russian space facilities in Crimea. At the end of May 2024, Ukrainian rocket artillery forces fired four ATACMS at once to destroy the space communication node near Alushta WASHINGTON — During President Donald Trump’s first term Ukraine worried that Trump might recognize Russian control over Crimea the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow forcibly seized in early 2014 Trump had said he would “take a look” at the matter even though the Obama administration and America’s Western allies had rejected Russia’s annexation of the strategic territory Trump even mused that “the people of Crimea But Trump never followed through and even doubled down against Moscow Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an official “Crimea Declaration” pledging that the nonrecognition policy would remain “until Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored.” in his effort to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine Trump is prepared to walk away from that declaration — and more than a decade of U.S A new peace proposal the Trump administration offered in London on Wednesday would include U.S a former diplomat with extensive experience with Ukraine and Russia called it the worst element of the Trump proposal which is widely seen as strongly favoring Moscow’s position in several ways It is one thing to halt the fighting along current battle lines without demanding that Russia withdraw from the vast swath of eastern Ukraine it now occupies Formally acknowledging Russia’s claim to Crimea would be much worse “It is perfectly reasonable to accept the reality that for an indefinite period of time parts of Ukraine will be under illegal Russian occupation,” Fried said “It is quite another thing to officially recognize a change of borders by force.” which affirmed “a bedrock international principle shared by democratic states: that no country can change the borders of another by force.” It is unclear how enthusiastic Trump ever was about such talk from Pompeo who was notably more hawkish toward Russia than the president he served But that view was widely shared in Washington Rubio co-sponsored a measure in October 2022 barring the United States from recognizing Russian claims to any portion of Ukraine’s land warning that doing so would “risk establishing a dangerous precedent for other authoritarian regimes to imitate.” Rubio and others have long feared that China might be more likely to try taking over Taiwan if it sees the West conceding control of Ukraine to Russia The idea of recognizing Crimea as Russian is a total nonstarter for Ukraine and its defenders Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ruled out the possibility saying it would violate his country’s Constitution: “There is nothing to talk about the land of the Ukrainian people,” he said But Trump later appeared to draw a distinction between recognition of Crimea as Russian by Ukraine where public opinion would make that step all but impossible “Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory,” Trump wrote Some analysts believe that Zelenskyy and European officials might be able to tolerate such a U.S Trump’s position — which remains one part of a proposal that could still change — may simply acknowledge facts on the ground Russian forces responded to a pro-Western revolution in Kyiv by taking over Crimea and staging a referendum there forced out residents opposed to its rule and even constructed a grand bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia Analysts say recapturing the peninsula would be extremely hard for Ukraine particularly given that it has been unable to eject Russia from its eastern territories after more than two years of all-out combat Crimea is also of particularly high value to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and was the site of epic battles during World War II and the Crimean War in the mid-19th century And while Putin has suggested that all of Ukraine belongs to Russia he may feel particularly indignant over Crimea which was part of Russia’s empire for hundreds of years until 1954 That’s when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred its control to Kyiv as a gift for the 300th anniversary of Russia’s unification with Ukraine It was a largely symbolic gesture at a time when Russia and Ukraine were fellow republics within the Soviet Union an analyst and Ukraine specialist at the RAND Corp. said that Trump has a track record of granting recognition to long-disputed territorial claims he recognized his close ally Israel’s longtime occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights Trump supported Morocco’s 45-year claim to rule Western Sahara in exchange for Morocco’s diplomatic recognition of Israel But Charap questioned the utility of making such a concession to Russia in the case of Crimea He cited the precedent of the July 1940 Welles Declaration said the United States would never recognize Soviet Russia’s occupation that summer of the Baltic States — Latvia (Pompeo cited that statement in his 2018 Crimea Declaration.) or even a negotiated end to the Cold War,” Charap said adding that many in the United States and Europe initially “sneered at” the Welles Declaration as “a joke.” But he noted that the Baltics were eventually free again Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Satellite footage shows damage to landing ship and submarine in Sevastopol while large explosions seen near Yevpatoriya A Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in occupied Crimea has severely damaged and possibly destroyed a Russian amphibious landing ship and a Kilo-class submarine the direct hit to the vessels in Sevastopol on Wednesday would mark one of the most devastating strikes against the Russian navy in the war and the largest since the sinking of the Moskva guided missile cruiser in 2022 In a second day of strikes in Crimea, Ukrainian forces claimed to have destroyed an S-400 air defence system on Thursday. Video published on social media showed large explosions near Yevpatoriya, on the occupied peninsula’s south-west coast, where Ukraine said Russia had stationed the air defence system Additional footage of a secondary strike/explosion in Russian-occupied Yevpatoriya pic.twitter.com/mvD6pLI325 Satellite footage showed that the missiles had struck a Russian anti-aircraft position that had previously been identified in social media posts The earlier Ukrainian cruise missile strike that hit a shipyard in Crimea on Wednesday caused large explosions at a major centre for the construction and repair of vessels in the Russian Black Sea fleet The damage to the ships could disable the local dry docks until the debris is cleared “Satellite imagery published on September 12 shows one Ropucha-class landing ship and one Kilo-class submarine at the dry dock and satellite imagery published on September 13 shows that the Ukrainian missile strike likely destroyed the two vessels,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War a Washington DC-based thinktank that regularly publishes analysis of the conflict A damaged Russian ship after a Ukrainian missile attack on Sevastopol Photograph: Social Media/ReutersRussian military officials said two vessels were hit in the attack and the scope of the damage was unclear A Ukrainian military intelligence official claimed the strike may have destroyed several ships “Considerable damage has been inflicted and we can now say that the vessels are most likely not recoverable,” Andriy Yusov a Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson today there’s good news – the destruction of the large enemy landing ship … as well as the Kalibr-carrying submarine Satellite footage of the shipyard published late on Wednesday showed severe damage to the Minsk The submarine is capable of carrying Kalibr cruise missiles which have been fired regularly by Black Sea fleet ships in attacks on Ukraine The ISW wrote: “The apparent destruction of the two vessels will likely render the dry dock inoperable until Russian forces can clear the debris which may take a significant amount of time The extent of the damage to repair facilities beyond the dry dock is unclear and any damage to one of the Russian Black Sea fleet’s main repair facilities in occupied Crimea will likely have reverberating impacts in the event of further [Ukrainian] strikes on Russian naval assets.” Russian and Ukrainian sources have reported that the strike against the shipyard was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles delivered by the UK and launched from Ukrainian aircraft The head of the Ukrainian air force thanked his pilots for their “excellent combat work” shortly after the Sevastopol strike Russia has not lost a submarine in combat since 1945 and the last peacetime loss of a submarine came in the early 2000s The strike on the Russian air defence missile systems was probably carried out using Neptune cruise missiles which are designed to be used against ships The satellite footage showed a number of craters near the site of an S-400 battery on the coast of Crimea previously identified in photos taken by tourists in 2022 Ukrainian drones first targeted radar infrastructure to blind the Russian defences and then the Neptune cruise missiles engaged the anti-aircraft battery Ukraine's Military Counterintelligence and the Ukrainian Navy conducted a unique special operation near Yevpatoria last night successfully neutralizing a Russian S-400 Triumph air defense system worth $1.2 billion according to sources in Ukraine's Security Service (SSU) The sources reported that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Neptune missiles effectively targeted the designated objective SSU drones disabled the 'eyes' of the complex After the radar stations were incapacitated Ukrainian Navy units launched two 'Neptune' cruise missiles striking at the S-300/400 Triumph launchers," a source explained Photo: Yevpatoria on the map (deepstatemap.live) Ukraine's Security Service sources also mentioned that further "surprises" await the Russians in Crimea The press service of the Strategic Communications Directorate of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed a strike on the location of enemy missile systems near the temporarily occupied Yevpatoria The S-400 Triumph is a Russian long-range and medium-range surface-to-air missile system representing a next-generation air defense missile complex This complex is designed to engage reconnaissance aircraft tactical and operational tactical ballistic missiles Russians employ these systems for anti-aircraft defense and missile strikes Since the S-400 is not intended for ground strikes they are highly inaccurate and destructive During the night in Crimea, loud explosions were heard near Yevpatoria. Eyewitnesses shared footage on social media depicting powerful flashes and a fire Local Telegram channels and media outlets noted that the explosions occurred near a military base Russian occupiers traditionally blamed Ukraine for the attack they reported that they had "successfully repelled" it with the alleged downing of 11 UAVs a claim that was not corroborated by evidence the temporarily occupied peninsula continues to experience demilitarization efforts something explodes within the occupiers' territory in Crimea Yesterday was particularly significant as Ukrainian forces managed to target a Russian submarine with cruise missiles marking an unprecedented development in history More details - in the material by RBC-Ukraine. 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