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Ukraine Strikes Russian Air Defense Assets Worth Hundreds of Millions at Belbek Airbase In Occupied Crimea

Ukraine Strikes Russian Air Defense Assets Worth Hundreds of Millions at Belbek Airbase In Occupied Crimea

 Dec 18, 2025
Explosions Rock Occupied Crimea as Drone Strike Sets Oil Depot Ablaze

Explosions Rock Occupied Crimea as Drone Strike Sets Oil Depot Ablaze

Explosions rock occupied Crimea as drone attacks ignite massive fires at oil depots and energy sites in Simferopol and Feodosia, signaling intensified strikes on Russian infrastructure.
 Dec 14, 2025
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Russian An-26 Aircraft in Crimea as It Prepared for Takeoff

Ukrainian Drone Strikes Russian An-26 Aircraft in Crimea as It Prepared for Takeoff

Ukrainian drones hit a Russian An‑26 military transport aircraft in occupied Crimea as it prepared for take‑off, destroying the plane and radar systems in a deep‑strike intelligence operation.
 Dec 12, 2025
“Yellow Ribbon” Activists Launch Bold Pro-Ukrainian Message Campaign  in occupied Crimea

“Yellow Ribbon” Activists Launch Bold Pro-Ukrainian Message Campaign  in occupied Crimea

Ukrainian “Yellow Ribbon” activists secretly spread posters, symbols and ribbons across occupied Crimea, defying Russian control and declaring “Crimea is Ukraine” as local resistance grows.
 Dec 6, 2025
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

Crimean activists file a novel ICC case accusing Russian propagandists of inciting war crimes against Ukraine — alleging thousands of broadcasts and posts called for attacks on civilians and critical infrastructure.
 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
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