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The Latest Breaking News from Crimea

Ukraine's turbulent history since independence, from Soviet state to war with Russia

Ukraine has endured internal political upheaval and conflict with its neighbour in the decades since breaking away from Moscow. Here is a look at some of the main events in the country's political history since declaring independence.

ABC News

Ministry stresses that French arms sales to Russia are not in violation of EU sanctions

The French Defence Ministry denies that France violated sanctions imposed by the European Union by continuing to sell military equipment to Moscow after it annexed Crimea in 2014.

Radio France Internationale

Boris Johnson claims West made 'terrible mistake' over Russia - so what's his own record?

Boris Johnson today said the West had made a 'terrible mistake' by letting Vladimir Putin 'get away' with the 2014 annexation of Crimea - leading to the Ukraine-Russia war. So here's what he's said before...

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Ukraine: Russia ‘planning referendum’ to ‘legitimise’ control of southern Kherson region

Vote would have echoes of 2014 referendums in Crimea and in ‘breakaway republics’ in east

The Independent UK

On the 3rd anniversary of the Christchurch attack, the Ukraine crisis asks the West to rethink its definitions of terrorism

As the Russian invasion unfolds, a deep vein of Ukrainian nationalism – already irritated by the annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the Donbas region – has been unleashed.

The Conversation

How Catherine the Great may have inspired Putin's Ukraine invasion

In his speech legitimizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin invoked 18th-century history.

The Conversation

John M. Crisp: How will we regard the Russia-Ukraine war in 20 years?

In light of the developing catastrophe in Ukraine, one wonders if President George W. Bush regrets not having taken a harder line against Russian President Vladimir Putin when he invaded Georgia in 2008. Or if President Barack Obama wishes he had tried harder to muster NATO and the rest of…

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Ukraine latest updates: Civilian convoy leaves besieged Mariupol

Ukraine news from March 14: Attempts to evacuate civilians and deliver humanitarian aid has failed for several days.

Al Jazeera

"We Will Never Be Brothers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xKCU15xDP0 I came across this poem yesterday; it was written in 2014 by Ukrainian Anastasia Dmitruk, reacting to the Russian invasion of Crimea. As I understand it, it prompted many pro-Russian poems in response; regardless of what you think of their ideological merits, it seems to me a sign of…

Reason

Russia’s crackdown on Crimean Tatars foreshadows wider repression

Analysts say Russia’s repression of Crimean Tatars indicates likely tactics towards dissent in wider Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Invaders ‘cannot conquer us’, Zelenskiy says, as 13,000 flee besieged cities – as it happened

Ukraine’s president says the capital will only fall to Russian troops if it is completely destroyed, while Moscow warns western shipments of arms to Ukraine could be attacked

The Guardian - AU

Europe's moment of truth? Russian invasion of Ukraine tests EU's resolve

What a difference an invasion makes. As EU leaders gathered for an emergency summit in the Paris suburb of Versailles, gone were the dissenting voices willing to cosy up to the Kremlin. From the far right to the far left, the excuses of 2014 – when Russia annexed Crimea –…

France 24

Ukraine facing 'economic strangulation' from war, former finance minister says

Ukraine's former finance minister has told FRANCE 24 that any company doing business with Russia is indirectly financing the war in Ukraine. Natalie Jaresko was in office from 2014 to 2016, when Russia annexed Crimea and conflict was raging in the eastern Donbas region. She described the current situation facing…

France 24

VIDEO: Ukrainian Navy Exchanges Fire With Russian Rivals And Blows Up Ship

Moscow does not budge in its demands over Crimea and eastern Ukraine as war rages on.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Beyond understanding’: Odesa braced to see if Putin attacks city of such resonance for Russians

Russian warships have been moving ominously in the sea between Odesa and Crimea. Each morning, Odesa’s remaining residents wake up and check their progress

Daily Mirror

Tory co-chairman's luxury firm for oligarchs says it's pulled out of Russia after fury

A spokesperson for Quintessentially - directed by Tory co-chairman Ben Elliot - tonight said it had withdrawn its franchise licence in Russia after boasting about how it provided "luxury lifestyle management" to Moscow's elite

Al Jazeera

Diary from Ukraine: ‘Terrified we’d be separated while fleeing’

This weekend, Zakhida Adylova decided to flee Kyiv for Lviv in the west with her family.

Daily Mirror

Russia says West arming Ukraine will cause 'global collapse' in chilling warning

Earlier today Vladimir Putin demanded Ukraine must distance itself from NATO, lay down its arms and recognise Russia's claims to Crimea, and to acknowledge that Donetsk and Lugansk are independent states before war can end

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Reuters

Kremlin says Russian military action will stop ‘in a moment’ if Ukraine meets conditions

Russia is demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Newslaundry

‘Phone calls worse than bombs’: Ukrainian’s postcard from war-torn Kyiv

None of us imagined that Vladimir Putin would start a war. This was unthinkable even after he took Crimea and the two Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. The worst we assumed was that he would again arrange a provocation at the border. But he suddenly began to bomb the…

Al Jazeera

Analysis: Is Russia repeating mistakes of past wars in Ukraine?

Putin may have anticipated a repeat of Russia’s seizure of Crimea, but what we have seen is more similar to Chechnya.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Putin's Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war

Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country

The Guardian - AU

The International Monetary Fund announced it could approve $1.4b emergency funding – as it happened

Biden says US and allies have ‘raised the costs’ on Russia over its aggression, as credit card giants Visa and Mastercard halt Russian business operations

Los Angeles Times

Former TV producer accused of violating US sanctions against Russia

WASHINGTON — A former U.S. TV producer has been charged with violating U.S. sanctions against Russia, imposed in 2014 as a result of its annexation of Crimea.

The Independent UK

Former Fox News director indicted for violating Crimea sanctions and helping Russian billionaire

Justice Department vows end to ‘Russian aggression’ with first Crimea-linked sanctions violation

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