Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War.

Following the August 15, 2025 summit in Alaska where Vladimir Putin met with U.S. President Donald Trump, various briefings have highlighted a series of tough demands that Moscow is pushing forward. Here’s what’s on offer,

Trump didn't rule out the possibility of American troops' helping to guarantee peace between Ukraine and Russia should the leaders reach an agreement.

The Budapest guarantee failed on Feb. 24, 2022, when Putin invaded Ukraine. Needless to say, Ukraine is once bitten, twice shy. By “security guarantee,” they require a legally binding treaty that specifies ironclad commitments. As NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told Fox News, “All the details have to be hammered out.”

The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 marked a pivotal moment in modern European history, setting the stage for the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine that resumed in 2022. This strategic Black Sea peninsula has become both a symbol of territorial dispute and

The White House says that Vladimir Putin told President Trump that he would meet with the man whose country Russia invaded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It comes as Trump is ruling out sending U.

Though Vladimir Putin has led Russia to a number of grisly military triumphs, they may have misled him when planning the invasion of Ukraine

Putin has called Crimea “a sacred place,” and has prosecuted those who publicly argue it is part of Ukraine. Repressions against the Crimean Tatars continued under Putin, despite Moscow’s ...

While Putin says Crimea has always been Russian, the peninsula has changed hands over the centuries, having been variously administered by the Russian Empire, warring factions during WWI and the Russian Civil War,