Olha Kuryshko spoke to Euronews about repression, forced deportations and the transformation of the peninsula into a Russian ...

Situation in Crimea Russian forces have occupied the Crimean peninsula for over 10 years. During this time, the occupiers have set up numerous military facilities there.

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.

The Atesh partisan group sabotaged a railway line linking parts of occupied Crimea with the front line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast ...