Crimea

Israel Police chief is right about the crime crisis, wrong to wait for software to fix it - opinion

Technology isn't the cure for crime. We must move beyond surveillance and restore sovereignty through physical presence and emergency powers.

|ByHAGGAI RESNIK
The Israeli police pointing towards the inside of a car.
Service members take part in what Russian Defence Ministry says is the deployment of the Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system in Belarus, at an unidetified location in this still image from video released December 30, 2025.

Global Monopoly game: How a small state like Israel survives in ruthless geopolitics - opinion

When global politics is like playing Monopoly, empathy erodes, it's about survival by crushing the weak.

|ByBOAZ GOLANY
Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Kremlin welcomes end to ‘direct threat’ label in US strategy, TASS reports

The Kremlin praised the revised US national security strategy for dropping language labeling Russia a direct threat and urging limited cooperation on strategic stability.

|ByREUTERS
A Ukrainian serviceman of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion prepares to fire a howitzer towards Russian troops at a position in a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 20, 2025.

What are the regions Ukraine could lose under the US-backed plan? - explainer

Under the original US-backed plan, which has since been revised, Ukraine would lose Crimea and most of the Donbas region, including parts that have not officially been taken by Russia.

|ByCORINNE BAUM

Putin's Victory Day speech was just empty words

"I’m 78 years old and I didn’t believe that things would get so bad, that brothers would slaughter their own flesh and blood," a Ukrainian woman said.

MAY 11, 2022ByKSENIA SVETLOVA/THE MEDIA LINE
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, May 2018

Russian negotiator says peace talks with Ukraine are ongoing - Ifax

Russia has used aging munitions in order to bombard Ukrainian towns with 'little or no regard for civilian casualties,' an intel report reads.

MAY 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian 9K37 Buk self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile launchers.

Russia ends Ukraine's blockade of Crimea

Crimea has been blockaded since 2014 when Russia illegally annexed the territory. 

MAY 6, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian Navy vessels are anchored in a bay of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea May 8, 2014

Ukraine-Russia War: Russia tries consolidating power in occupied areas - GUR

The interior minister of the Luhansk People's Republic was arrested by Russia * A referendum may be set up in Russian-controlled Kherson to break away from Ukraine.

APRIL 21, 2022ByAARON REICH
Servicemen of pro-Russian militia hoist flags of Russia and the separatist self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) outside the Oschad bank branch in Stanytsia Luhanska in the Luhansk region, Ukraine February 27, 2022.

Russia-Ukraine war: Plight of Crimean Tatars foreshadows more war crimes - opinion

The Crimean Tatars, largely Muslims, trace their history in the Ukrainian peninsula back many centuries, most of which are marked indelibly by Russian oppression.

APRIL 19, 2022ByMARC SCHNEIER
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden stops to speak to reporters at Fort McNair Army Base in Washington, earlier this month, charging that Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and saying he’ll call for a war crimes trial.

Russian-controlled Crimea orders law to ban Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Crimea head Sergei Aksyonov also said that he ordered lawmakers to draft a law that would nationalize all property in Crimea belonging to Ukrainian oligarchs.

MARCH 30, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Russian navy vessel is anchored on the day of the first anniversary of the Crimean treaty signing in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, March 18, 2015.

8 years since contested Crimea referendum to join Russia

The background to this incident is highly complex, as are the many conflicting narratives regarding what, exactly, occurred. However, it continues to play a major role in the geopolitical landscape.

MARCH 17, 2022ByAARON REICH
A Russian navy vessel is anchored on the day of the first anniversary of the Crimean treaty signing in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, March 18, 2015.

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

Opinion by James Krapfl: The parallels between Catherine’s and Putin’s designs are remarkable.

MARCH 15, 2022ByTHE CONVERSATION/REUTERS
Catherine the Great

The Russian challenge to the US: When did it start? Where is it heading?

The Russian government led by Putin has carried a strong and proud national identity, accompanied with a deep sense of insult, and humiliation from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

MARCH 7, 2022ByIBRAHIM ABU AHMAD
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad at the Kremlin over a year ago. The intervention in Syria remains the catalyst that signified the Russian challenge to the US.

ICC prosecutor to proceed with investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine

prosecutor Karim Khan said the investigation will look into alleged violations dating back to 2014 when Ukraine recognized the court's jurisdiction.

FEBRUARY 28, 2022ByREUTERS
Ukraine's ambassador Yevheniia Filipenko speaks at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council, following the Russian invasion in Ukraine, in Geneva, Switzerland February 28, 2022.