It is 78 years since Stalin deported the entire indigenous population of Crimea to Central Asia, killing half in the process. Today, the anniversary has an especially tragic meaning: since Russia occupied Crimea, the Crimean Tatars have...
Crimea as a military base during Russo-Ukrainian war Russian military vehicles, ammunition and the remainder of military personnel continues active movement all over the Crimean peninsula, in particular in Simferopol, Bakhchysarai,...
The active phase of Russian aggression against Ukraine started not in 2022 but in 2014, with the occupation of Crimea, followed by the invasion of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Over the past eight years, Russia has turned Crimea into a...
A survey conducted by the Sociological Group “Rating” on March 12-13, 2022 shows that 76% of Ukrainian respondents believe that things in Ukraine are moving in the right direction. This is the highest share in the history of...
Russia attacked Ukraine! It’s time to make things perfectly clear! Putin and his acolytes have been working on this military operation for years. That is a fact. According to the Kremlin’s plans, the Russian armed forces were...
In order to impede the advance of Russian tanks from occupied Crimea, Ukrainian marine engineer Vitaliy Skakun gave up his life to blow up the Henichesky road bridge and delay the Russian offensive. Russia’s Big War against Ukraine...
After several months of Russian statements that the country’s security depends on obtaining guarantees that Ukraine and other former Soviet republics will never be accepted to NATO, it turns out that it was all about Crimea. Russian...
Past 72 hours in the war zone Russian occupiers launch 19 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk and Mariupol sectors, incl heavy artillery and weapons banned by Minsk. 2 Ukrainian soldier wounded, 1 Ukrainian soldier wounded...
Ukrainian historical experts have documented 150 violations of cultural heritage sites in occupied Crimea performed by the Russian authorities. This has been reported to QIRIM.News by the coordinator of the Crimean Institute for Strategic...
The military mission by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), unofficially known as “Russian NATO,” to Kazakhstan will be headed by Russian General Andrei Serdyukov. Serkyukov is known for having led the...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
