Artem Grudinin

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Alexander Murray Smith |Artem Grudinin

Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts. Crimea had been contested for centuries by the Greeks, Mongols and Ottomans before Russia illegally annexed it from Ukraine in 2014. Sitting at a geographic crossroads between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the peninsula has vast trade and military significance — and is steeped in spiritual lore.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Keir Simmons |Alexander Murray Smith |Artem Grudinin

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2 months ago | flipboard.com | Daryna Mayer |Alexander Smith |Artem Grudinin

9 hours agoSome analysts hoped that Trump might end the war; they are stunned that the U.S. has now “changed sides.” In the summer of 2023, while the second Ukrainian counter-offensive was still under way, I spoke to Alexander Bick, a Biden Administration official who had helped lead planning at the National …

Nov 13, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Artem Grudinin

Nov. 13, 2024, 2:55 PM UTCKYIV — A bomb planted under a car blew up and killed a Russian serviceman in the occupied Crimean city of Sevastopol on Wednesday, in what a Kyiv security source told NBC News was a Ukrainian hit on a senior naval official accused of war crimes.

Oct 2, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Artem Grudinin

Oct. 2, 2024, 12:04 PM UTCBy and KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops on Wednesday took charge of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a bastion that had resisted intense attacks since Russia launched its full-scale assault in 2022. The advance of Moscow’s forces, which control just under a fifth of Ukraine, has underlined Russia’s vast superiority in men and materiel as Ukraine pleads for more weapons from the Western allies that have been supporting it.