One person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed officials said in the early hours of Sunday, as Russian and Ukrainian leaders held separate calls

Since the days of Catherine the Great, Crimea has functioned as a Russian military stronghold and a place for faraway Moscow to project its power into the Black Sea. Even when independent Ukraine controlled the territory, Russia kept a huge naval presence in Sevastopol, the peninsula’s biggest city.

The drone attacks on Saki Air Base are part of Ukraine's latest campaign to make Crimea as uninhabitable for Russian forces as possible.

At the Saky airfield, seven hangars used for storing aircraft were hit. Those hangars housed fighter jets and frontline bombers, including the Su-30SM, Su-30, and Su-24. According to preliminary information,

Ukrainian intelligence releases exclusive video of Russian jet strike A Russian MiG-29 fighter jet was destroyed during a Ukrainian military intelligence drone strike on the Belbek airbase in temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of June 26,

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said on July 3 it had struck two Russian military air bases in occupied Crimea overnight, damaging or destroying at least seven military aircraft in its second

Crimea has been the symbol of the success of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now the peninsula is becoming isolated as Kyiv intensifies its attacks.

Perspective: Crimea was Putin’s trophy. Ukraine is turning it into a test of command, supply lines and political nerve.

The signs from Crimea look like a quiet retreat: per Ukrainian resistance sources, Russian officials in Feodosia and Kerch were ordered to evacuate all documents and equipment by July 3 — and some with access to government fuel suddenly took medical leave and left for Russia.