Crimea.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Heavy rains have caused floods and mudslides in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.
A Moscow-imposed court in the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea on June 1 sentenced the leader of the Crimean Tatars' self-governing body to six years in prison.
The Memorial Human Rights Center says it has recognized four Crimean Tatars being tried for their alleged association with a banned Islamic group as political prisoners.
A Russian national suspected of spying for Ukraine has been arrested in the Russian-occupied region of Crimea.
An RFE/RL freelance correspondent arrested in Ukraine's Russia-annexed Crimea has told a court he was tortured with electric shocks, beaten, and threatened with death unless he "confessed" to spying on behalf of Ukraine.
A Moscow-imposed court in the Russian-annexed Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to a lengthy prison term amid an ongoing crackdown against the religious group.
Authorities in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea have detained another Jehovah's Witness amid an ongoing crackdown against the religious group.
The authorities in Crimea have arrested a man for allegedly spying on behalf of Ukraine, a move Kyiv characterized as propaganda ahead of the seventh anniversary of Moscow's forcible annexation of the region.
Russian authorities have detained several Crimean Tatar activists after their homes were searched in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Crimea region.
Another group of Crimean Tatars has been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group and plotting to seize power in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The Russian-controlled Supreme Court in Crimea has sentenced the owner of the ATR Crimean Tatar television channel, Lenur Islyamov, to 19 years in prison in absentia.
Ukraine says it plans to buy more than 40 military drones from Turkey and wants to establish a large-scale assembly plant to build the unmanned combat aircraft.
The Russia-controlled administration in Crimea is calling in a plane to try and stimulate rain in the drought-hit region of central Crimea. Experts are warning of the possible impact on the environment and question the effectiveness of the plan.
A court in Russia has sentenced seven Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group.
Drone video showed the charred house of Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin which was gutted in a suspected arson attack on July 23.
Sea Breeze 2020, a multinational naval exercise, has been launched in the Ukrainian waters of the Black Sea.
Russian authorities have detained seven Crimean Tatar activists after searching their homes in different parts of Ukraine's Russia-controlled Crimea region. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement that it detained "three leaders and four members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group" in Crimea on July 7. Since Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in March 2014, the authorities have prosecuted dozens of Crimean Tatars for allegedly belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Russia but not in Ukraine.
Russian authorities have detained seven Crimean Tatar activists after searching their homes in different parts of Ukraine's Moscow-controlled Crimea region.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia's departure from the Black Sea Crimea Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, is "inevitable."
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