Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorated the occupation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia exactly 10 years ago on Monday. “It all began in Crimea – this Russian revanchism, this Russian war,” Zelensky said in his evening video address. That day determined the fate of international security and international relations, the Ukrainian president said. Russian special […]
Boris Johnson, former UK’s Prime Minister, considers Putin’s positions in Crimea weak and the perspective of the liberation of Crimea by Ukraine quite real if the West continues supplying it with necessary armament. Source: Johnson in an interview for European Pravda Quote: “Before, everybody thought Putin will never let Crimea go. You know, this is […]
Russia is “obviously” experiencing problems with its Kalibr cruise missiles after successful strikes by Ukrainian forces in Crimea, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on national television on Feb. 15. Read also: Sunk Russian warship carried military cargo, Ukraine says Now the enemy uses very few of these missiles. Only two Kalibr cruise missiles were […]
A photo of a burning ship has circulated in reports about an explosion near the Crimean Peninsula in January 2019, contradicting multiple social media posts from January 2024 that claim it shows a vessel hit by Yemen’s Huthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Huthis began targeting Red Sea shipping in November 2023, as a […]
The British Broadcasting Corporation A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine’s armed forces. Powerful explosions were heard early on Wednesday, according to local social media, which suggested the landing ship was hit south of the town of Yalta. Ukraine’s intelligence directorate released video […]
The UK Ministry of Defence has estimated that the latest strike by Ukrainian forces on the Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea has further undermined the potential of Russian aircraft. Source: UK intelligence review dated 10 February, reported by European Pravda Details: UK intelligence pointed out that on 31 January, Ukraine struck the Russian Belbek airfield […]
Ukraine must fully regain its territorial integrity, including temporarily occupied Crimea, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated on Polish Radio on Feb. 5. Duda misspoke about Ukraine’s prospects for liberating Crimea and is now clarifying his belief that Ukraine must reassert control over all its internationally recognized territories. Read also: Poland’s President Duda clarifies his total […]
Ukraine must fully regain its territorial integrity, including temporarily occupied Crimea, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated on PolishRadio on Feb. 5. Duda misspoke about Ukraine’s prospects for liberating Crimea and is now clarifying his belief that Ukraine must reassert control over all its internationally recognized territories. Read also: Duda warns of Putin forming ‘coalition of […]
After Polish politicians criticized President Andrzej Duda for doubting Ukraine’s ability to regain Crimea from Russia on Feb. 3, he issued a clarification. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stressed that Warsaw recognizes Ukraine’s independence within its internationally recognized borders. “They have been repeatedly confirmed by the Russian Federation: starting with the Treaty of Nov. 19, 1990, the Budapest Memorandum of Dec. 5, 1994, […]
Radosław Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, has stressed, following President Duda’s controversial statement on Crimea, that Poland recognises Ukraine’s independence within its internationally established borders, which have been repeatedly confirmed by Russia. Source: Sikorski on Twitter (X), as European Pravda reports Quote: “Poland recognises the independence of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders, which have been […]
Russian invaders are painstakingly salvaging the wreckage of the large landing ship Novocherkassk from the ocean floor, piece by piece, after it was destroyed by Ukrainian forces over a month ago. Photos from eyewitnesses shared on the Telegram channel Crimean Wind on Feb. 3 depict the operation. The strike on the Novocherkassk, which was docked in the Feodosia port, […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry sent a note of protest to Nicaragua in response to a visit by a Russian delegation from occupied Crimea, the ministry’s spokesperson, Oleh Nikolenko, said on Feb. 2. Russia has illegally occupied Crimea since 2014. Although the peninsula remains broadly recognized as Ukraine’s sovereign territory, Nicaragua was one of the few countries […]