KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister said Thursday his country won’t budge from its demand that Russia withdraw its forces from Crimea, as well as from other parts of Ukraine that ...

The map, which was shown during a 2026 World Cup qualifying draw earlier this week, was designed to show countries that cannot be drawn to play against each other for geopolitical reasons, such as ...

KYIV, UKRAINE—Anxieties that Ukraine is poised to lose its prized Crimean peninsula forever deepened sharply Thursday as Russia’s high-stakes military occupation gave way to a campaign to annex the ...

The FIFA World Cup 26 trophy is displayed during the UEFA Preliminary Draw at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, December 13, 2024. Martin Meissner/AP ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the unification of Moscow and Kyiv.

Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, but most of the world does not recognize it as Russian territory. The peninsula's future status will be a key feature in any negotiations on ending the ...

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA apologized to the Ukrainian soccer federation for displaying a map during its World Cup qualifying draw that excluded Russia-occupied Crimea from the country’s territory ...