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Canada to allocate additional funding to help Ukraine return its children from Russian deportation

According to Ukrainian authorities, nearly 20,000 children have been forcibly taken to Russia from occupied territories since 2022 and only 389 were returned back home.

byOlena Mukhina

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ISW: Ukraine bypasses Russian air defenses in Russia-occupied Crimea

Ukraine's multiple successful strikes on Russian military targets across Russian-occupied Crimea demonstrated Ukraine's growing ability to penetrate Russian defenses. The strikes aimed to degrade the Russian military’s ability to use Crimea as a base for further offensive operations in southern Ukraine

byMaria Tril

Explosion in occupied Crimea’s Yevpatoria, photo: screenshot

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Latest news Ukraine

Explosions in occupied Crimea’s Yevpatoria: Russians claim air and sea drone attacks (Updated)

In the early hours of 14 September, locals reported powerful explosions heard in the occupied Yevpatoria on the western coast of Russian-occupied Crimea. Russia’s Ministry of Defense claims it has neutralized attacking Ukrainian aerial drones. Additionally, Moscow says that underwater drones attacked the Russian patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" in the Black Sea but were also destroyed.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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Opinion

Ukraine to liberate Crimea by end of August 2023 – former commander of US Army in Europe

Why occupied Crimea is a trap for Russian forces rather than a fortress? Will Russia use nukes against…

bySerge Havrylets

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Russia exports half million tonnes of possibly stolen Ukrainian grain to Syria – Reuters

Using a low-profile fleet of ships under US sanctions, Syria has this year sharply increased wheat imports from…

byYuri Zoria

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Russia rapidly moving landing ships, submarines of Baltic, Northern & Pacific fleets to Black Sea

According to the monitoring group, several groups of additional Russian ships entered the Mediterranean sea in late January…

byBohdan Ben

Illegal military conscription of local residents–citizens of Ukraine–in occupied Crimea into the Russian military conducted at one of the military commissariats on the peninsula. Photo: rk.gov.ru

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Russia continues to coerce Crimeans into its military and punishes those that resist

In the most recent example, the “court” for the city of Sudak has convicted a nineteen-year-old resident of…

byUkrainian media sources

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Crimea

How Crimean hotel Mriya keeps winning the British World Travel Awards despite EU sanctions

Every year, Russian media mark the Mriya Hotel’s award of the World Travel Awards with publications along the…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-annexed Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September 22. Soon after the event, further information emerged that the clashes had involved antagonistic groups of Chechens and Crimean Tatars. Photo: Kommersant

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Are Chechens being purposefully pitted against Crimean Tatars?

Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-occupied Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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“After they electrocuted me, I told them everything they needed.” How Russia’s FSB extracted a “confession” from a Crimean Tatar

Asan Akhtemov and his compatriots were arrested on 3-4 September. On that night, Russian security service officers raided…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Jailing innocent Crimean Tatars to insanely huge terms: a how-to guide from Russia

16 August 2021. More than 150 people have gone all the way from occupied Crimea to Rostov-on-Don in…

byYuliia Rudenko

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How Russia will try to sue Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights

As in February Ukraine filed its ninth Inter-State application before the European Court of Human Rights against Russia,…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Crimea

Russians relocated to occupied Crimea now make up one-third of the population, experts say

Read also: Russia’s replacement of population in occupied Crimea violates Geneva Convention – UN report (2019) Statistical authorities…

byUkrainian media sources

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Win for Ukraine as PACE adopts strong resolution in support of Crimean Tatars persecuted by Russia

1. To begin with, a PACE resolution focusing on the issue of Russia-occupied Crimea and the rights of…

byYuliia Rudenko

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“I do not want my children to live in a country of terror.” Four inspiring letters from Crimean Tatar political prisoners not broken by Russia

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian occupation authorities have established a highly repressive regime on…

byYuliia Rudenko

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International

The limits of compromise for Biden & Putin: Ukrainians’ views of the future of occupied Crimea and Donbas

It presents landmarks and signals what the Ukrainian people really want, and therefore, what Kyiv’s policy can or…

byEuropean Pravda

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Photo project spotlights Crimean Tatar kids born after their fathers’ unlawful arrests by Russian occupation authorities

2021 marked the seventh anniversary of the Russian occupation of the part of sovereign Ukrainian territory, the Crimean…

byYuliia Rudenko

Russian FSB secret police and paramilitaries suppress any open dissent in Crimea and actively search for any hidden resistance to the occupation. Beside using the judicial system to enforce the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula, they employ secret abductions and extrajudicial killings of Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian activists. (Image: GordonUA.com)

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Forced migration in Crimea as part of Russia’s ‘hybrid’ strategy

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 201 came into effect on March 20, 2021. The executive edict adds…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Crimea

Ukraine’s evidence in ECtHR: proof of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, human rights violations

The full description as well as references and supporting facts were included in the description of the court…

byBohdan Ben

Militarization of children in Russia-occupied Crimea. (Source: arc.construction)

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Stolen childhood: Russian propaganda and militarization of Crimean youth

On December 7, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) adopted the resolution “Problem of the militarization…

byThe Jamestown Foundation