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Crimean Activists File ICC Case Against Russian Propagandists Inciting War Crimes in Ukraine

Crimean Activists File ICC Case Against Russian Propagandists Inciting War Crimes in Ukraine

 Nov 7, 2025
Ukrainian Drones In Crimea Attacked Two Oil Depots, Radars And Russian Air Defenses Worth $20 Million

Ukrainian Drones In Crimea Attacked Two Oil Depots, Radars And Russian Air Defenses Worth $20 Million

Ukrainian SBU drones struck Russian military and infrastructure in occupied Crimea on October 29, hitting oil depots, a Pantsir-S2 system, and two radar stations.
 Oct 29, 2025
Night Drone Strikes Hit Occupied Crimea: Oil Depot Ablaze, Power Outages Reported

Night Drone Strikes Hit Occupied Crimea: Oil Depot Ablaze, Power Outages Reported

Drone attacks in occupied Crimea hit energy and oil infrastructure, causing fires, power outages, and the self-destruction of a Russian Su-30 aircraft.
 Oct 17, 2025
Ukraine Targets Key Power Substations in Kafa and Simferopol in Occupied Crimea

Ukraine Targets Key Power Substations in Kafa and Simferopol in Occupied Crimea

Ukrainian drones operated by SBU strikes Kafa power substation and a substation in Simferopol in occupied Crimea.
 Oct 14, 2025
Rising 12 Kilometers High: Massive Blaze Engulfs Feodosia Oil Depot After Ukrainian Strike

Rising 12 Kilometers High: Massive Blaze Engulfs Feodosia Oil Depot After Ukrainian Strike

Smoke rising 12 kilometers high: photos emerge of the oil depot in Feodosia after a Ukrainian strike. The fire spread to other storage tanks.
 Oct 12, 2025
Ukraine Strikes the Occupied Crimea’s Saky Airfield: 5 Jets and Ammunition Depot Hit

Ukraine Strikes the Occupied Crimea’s Saky Airfield: 5 Jets and Ammunition Depot Hit

Ukrainian Security Service informed that the Ukrainian forces successfully strikes 5 russian aircrafts in the occupied Crimea’s Saky Airfield. New SBU operation: Ukrainian drones Hit 5 Russian Jets at Saky airbase, one fully destroyed. On the night of August 4, special forces of the SBU’s Alpha Group struck five Russian fighter jets with drones at the Saky airbase in temporarily […]
 Aug 4, 2025
Attack on Crimea: Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system and three helicopters

Attack on Crimea: Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system and three helicopters

On the night of June 27–28, drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) attacked the Kirovske military airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to an official statement from the SBU. The strike targeted the deployment sites of aviation units, air defense systems, ammunition depots, as well as the enemy’s reconnaissance and combat drones. The SBU reported the destruction of […]
 Jun 29, 2025
Yulia Navalnaya Addresses Occupied Crimea as “De Facto Russian” and Complicated Issue

Yulia Navalnaya Addresses Occupied Crimea as “De Facto Russian” and Complicated Issue

The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, stated that the occupied Crimea in fact belongs to the aggressor country, Russia. The corresponding video was published earlier. Speaking in Finland, Navalnaya said that the issue of Crimea’s status “remains complicated.” “The Crimean peninsula belongs to Ukraine, but now it de facto belongs to Russia. This becomes […]
 Jun 29, 2025
Ukrainian journalist Yesypenko released from Russian captivity

Ukrainian journalist Yesypenko released from Russian captivity

The media worker had been tortured by Russian security forces. Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko has been released after more than four years of Russian imprisonment and has left the temporarily occupied Crimea, Radio Free Europe reports. Yesypenko was released on June 20, but the news was made public by the media outlet on Sunday evening. RFE thanked the governments of […]
 Jun 23, 2025
Russia constructing aircraft shelters at military bases in occupied Crimea

Russia constructing aircraft shelters at military bases in occupied Crimea

Russia has begun constructing aircraft shelters at military bases in occupied Crimea. Satellite images show that Russia has begun building aircraft shelters at its military bases following a Ukrainian special operation. This was reported by Radio Liberty, according to Ukrinform. Signs of construction work on these shelters can be seen in satellite images of the Kirovske airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, […]
 Jun 8, 2025
Russia has deployed chemical troops to guard the Crimean Bridge

Russia has deployed chemical troops to guard the Crimean Bridge

Russia’s chemical troops are involved in guarding the illegal Crimean Bridge. This was stated on Hromadske Radio by the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk: “As for the land-based component, it includes the National Guard of Russia, the FSB, border guards, and even chemical troops.” Air defense systems are also involved in protecting the Crimean Bridge. They are present […]
 Jun 4, 2025
Naval Magura drones were used in the strike on the Crimean Bridge

Naval Magura drones were used in the strike on the Crimean Bridge

Naval Magura drones were used in the strike on the Crimean Bridge. Participation in the sea drone sabotage may indicate joint actions by the SBU and the HUR. Following the sabotage operation by the Security Service of Ukraine on the Crimean Bridge in the Kerch Strait, a Magura V7 sea drone equipped with anti-aircraft missiles was discovered. This was reported […]
 Jun 3, 2025
Russians block traffic on the Crimean bridge, claiming the second attack during a day

Russians block traffic on the Crimean bridge, claiming the second attack during a day

Russian authorities blocked traffic on the Crimean Bridge the second time during the day on Tuesday, June 3. Maritime transport has also been suspended. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing “RIA Novosti” and Russian Telegram channels. “The Sevastopol Bay raid has been temporarily closed, and maritime passenger transport has been halted,” writes “RIA Novosti.” Traffic on the Crimean Bridge was […]
 Jun 3, 2025
Foreign vessel detained for illegally exporting grain via occupied Crimea

Foreign vessel detained for illegally exporting grain via occupied Crimea

Foreign vessel detained for illegally exporting grain via occupied Crimea. A pre-trial investigation has established that in November 2024, a cargo ship flying the flag of a foreign illegal state exported over 4,600 tons of wheat from the Sevastopol Sea Commercial Port, which had been officially closed by Ukraine. The grain was likely seized by Russia from the occupied territories […]
 Apr 25, 2025
Occupiers raid Crimean Tatars’ homes – head of Mejlis

Occupiers raid Crimean Tatars’ homes – head of Mejlis

Russian security forces searched for weapons and books. During the search, a 75-year-old man became unwell. FSB officers conducted searches in four homes in the village of Ortalan (occupational name — Zemlyanychne) in Crimea. This was reported by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov. “This time, the FSB punishers stormed the homes of Crimean […]
 Apr 3, 2025
Day of resistance: remembering the 2014 Crimean protests

Day of resistance: remembering the 2014 Crimean protests

Today, February 26, we remember the events of 2014, when a rally of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians took place in Simferopol in support of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and against Russian military aggression. At 11 a.m., the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people called on the residents of the peninsula to gather for a protest against separatism outside the Crimean parliament. […]
 Feb 26, 2025
Since the beginning of the annexation of Crimea, 370 Crimeans have faced politically motivated criminal prosecution, according to the Crimean Resource Center

Since the beginning of the annexation of Crimea, 370 Crimeans have faced politically motivated criminal prosecution, according to the Crimean Resource Center

As reported by Krym.Realii, 370 politically motivated criminal prosecutions have been documented since Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, with 228 of these involving Crimean Tatars. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center reports this on its website. The KRC divides political prisoners and those persecuted into five subcategories:  • Convicted and serving sentences in colonies: 176 people, of which 107 are […]
 Nov 13, 2024
IAEA funded Russian nuclear research in occupied Crimea, Radio Free Europe says

IAEA funded Russian nuclear research in occupied Crimea, Radio Free Europe says

After the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the IAEA funded research by Russian scientists in Crimea, despite officially recognizing the peninsula as Ukrainian. In response to a request from Radio Free Europe, the IAEA stated that the agency continues to consider Crimea as part of Ukraine. The scientific projects supported by the IAEA were said […]
 Oct 21, 2024
Erdoğan: The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law

Erdoğan: The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that the return of occupied Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law. The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law. Turkey supports its territorial integrity, – Erdoğan says. As reported by Censor.NET, citing Anadolu, the Turkish leader made this statement during an address to participants of the fourth […]
 Sep 11, 2024
Lesya Ukrainka museum destroyed in occupied Yalta

Lesya Ukrainka museum destroyed in occupied Yalta

According to Voice of Crimea, during a monitoring of cultural institutions in occupied Crimea, it was discovered that the Lesya Ukrainka Museum has ceased to exist. The building still displays Soviet-era security and memorial plaques commemorating Lesya Ukrainka’s stay there in the late 19th century. However, a new plastic plaque in front of the historic building now announces an exhibition […]
 Aug 14, 2024
Ukraine Launched a Group Missile Strike On Russian S-300 and S-400 Air Defense Systems In Occupied Crimea

Ukraine Launched a Group Missile Strike On Russian S-300 and S-400 Air Defense Systems In Occupied Crimea

The Defense Forces launched a group missile strike on S-300 and S-400 air defense systems in Crimea. Last night, one enemy S-300 anti-aircraft missile battalion was hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Belbek, and two S-400 anti-aircraft missile battalions were hit near Belbek and Sevastopol. The General Staff confirms hits in the target areas: two radars of the […]
 Jun 12, 2024
Two russian ships destroyed in occupied Crimea

Two russian ships destroyed in occupied Crimea

Preliminarily, two ships were destroyed in occupied Crimea on the night of May 19, according to the spokesman of the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk. Context: Yesterday, the Ukrainian Navy reported the targeting of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s minesweeper, project 266-M “Kovrovets”. A minesweeper is a special-purpose ship, the task of which is to search for, detect and destroy sea […]
 May 20, 2024
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the large amphibious assault ship with a Neptune missile

The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the large amphibious assault ship with a Neptune missile

The AFU hit the large amphibious assault ship with a Neptune missile, the spokesman of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The large amphibious assault ship “Kostyantyn Olshansky” was hit with a “Neptune” missile.  This was informed  by the spokesman of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Dmytro Pletenchuk on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel.  According to him, the extent of the damage to the ship is […]
 Mar 26, 2024
Ukraine’s air strike damaged another russian ship in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea

Ukraine’s air strike damaged another russian ship in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea

As a result of Ukraine’s air strike in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea on March 24, 2024, another russian ship Ivan Khurs was damaged. As a result of the attack of the Defense Forces of Ukraine on the temporarily occupied Sevastopol on March 24, the reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs was damaged, reports the Russian Telegram channel Astra with reference to sources. On […]
 Mar 25, 2024
mindich case
“Mindich Was a Supervisor, Not the Main Beneficiary of the Scheme,” — NABU Detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov in a Quick Interview

NABU Detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov: Mindich Was a Supervisor, Not the Main Beneficiary of the Scheme

Operation Midas: NABU Declares Mindich and Tsuckerman Wanted in Major Energy Corruption Case

Fire Point Co-Owner Confirms Ties to Key Figures in Major Ukrainian Energy Corruption Mindich Case

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