When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

Crimean Tatars Fear Oppression, Ethnic Clashes after Vote to Return their Homeland to Russia ...

Sunday's referendum on joining Russia is illegal, say leaders of the Tatar minority. Comprising about 12 percent of Crimea's population, these ethnic Sunni Muslims have a long, troubled history ...

Crimea is about 60 percent ethnic Russian, 25 percent ethnic Ukrainian, and 12 percent Crimean Tatar — a predominantly Muslim group that was forcibly removed from Crimea en masse by Soviet ...

On 18 March, Vladimir Putin declared to the Russian parliament that Crimea had always been an inseparable part of Russia. But in fact the peninsula’s history is not so simple.

Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea off southern Ukraine, was absorbed into the Russian Empire along with most ethnic Ukrainian territory by Catherine the Great in the 18th century.

With bombs and drones, Ukraine aims to dislodge Russia's hold on the Crimean peninsula and bring it back under Kyiv’s authority, despite Putin's claims.

A Crimean Tatar couple in Ukraine, displaced by Russian troops, sees parallels to the Soviets' forced deportation of 200,000 Tatars from Crimea 80 years ago.

Umerov’s ethnic background as a Crimean Tatar has attracted significant attention. The September 2023 appointment of Rustem Umerov as Ukraine's defense minister was well received at home and abroad.

Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russia in 2014 and illegally annexed from Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com ...