The accusations According to the Ukrainian Navy, on 25 November, the tugboat Yany Kapu and two artillery armored boats Berdiansk and Nikopol, were headed from Odesa to Mariupol. They notified the coastal post of the Russian border guards...
The stories published by Russia Today have clear signs of distorting the facts as they state that “Ukrainian ships entered Russian waters in the Black Sea illegally” while in reality, the bilateral treaty between Russia and...
On 25 November, in an escalation of tensions which had been developing since summer 2018, three Ukrainian ships were seized by the Russian coast guard near the Kerch Strait. According to Viktor Muzhenko, Ukraine’s Chief of Staff,...
In a move that gives substance to Ukrainian fears that Moscow will close the Sea of Azov to Ukrainian shipping or even launch a new war from there but that also reflects just how stretched the Russian navy is, Moscow is currently moving...
After the Finnish company Wärtsilä refused to sell generators to the “Zaliv” ship-building factory in Kerch, occupied Crimea, they were replaced by generators produced by the German company MAN, one of Russia’s largest outlets RBC...
The Dutch government will investigate the legality of the participation of two local companies in the construction of the bridge from Russia across the Kerch Strait to occupied Crimea, contravening EU sanctions, according to Foreign Trade...
Russia will not be able to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait to link occupied Crimea with the Russian Federation, according to a Ukrainian scholar. But its likely inability to do so means that Moscow may have even more reason to press...
The local “government” will try to battle the lines at the Kerch ferry with the help of implementing a system of tickets, which will preserve information about the number in line, time and date of issue, as well as the license plate of...
A woman who tried to take cuts in line was beaten up at the Kerch ferry. According to kerch.com.ru, after the conflict with other travelers the woman was taken to the medical point with a head injury in an ambulance, reports gazeta.ru....
Importing products from Russia is problematic. The self-proclaimed Crimean government acknowledges that it is impossible to supply Crimea with food and consumer products from Russia. This was stated by Nickolai Kochanov, the so-called...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
