Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
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Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union ... the fate of Germany and Europe after World War II. For Kyiv, Crimea had been a strategic ...
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Fairfield’s American Armory Museum’s open house draws dozens Saturday for a day of armored vehicle rides, simulated firings of light infantry weapons and displays of historic military ...
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Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine - and the role it plays in the war
It briefly regained independence as a Tatar republic two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union ... of Germany and Europe after World War II. For Kyiv, Crimea had been a ...
'Facing Existential Threat From Russia': Poland's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
We’re facing an existential threat from the Russian Federation,” Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski, the deputy minister of ...
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Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
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Why Putin covets Ukraine’s territory and turned Crimea from a playground into a battleground
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...
Soldiers sail across the Rhine to mark 80th anniversary of the invasion of Germany
The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.