The Trump administration, however, starts from the sixth, outside layer. It sees the Ukraine war as a minor front in a ...

How are Russia and Ukraine placed after three years of fighting and with Donald Trump suggesting talks on ending the war ...

It also borders its giant neighbor Russia to the east. 2014 invasion and Crimea annexation Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2014, seizing Crimea, a peninsula extending from its southern coast.

Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, with Russian-backed separatists ... (This area can be seen outlined in black on the map above) Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February ...

Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 343 Ukrainian drones overnight, in what appeared to be Kyiv's largest ...

Newsweek's map below illustrates what territories Ukraine could swap with Russia ... it has annexed five Ukrainian territories including Crimea in 2014, as well as Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk ...

“I say clearly: These are Ukrainian territories, and this is absolutely a ‘red line’ because it is enshrined in Ukraine’s constitution.” In 2014, Russia illegally annexed ...

The map also shows Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine based on analysis by the ... the Donbas—as well as Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Putin in ...