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The Ukrainian Navy strikes and heavily damages a Russian offshore natural gas platform in the Black Sea being used by the Russian Armed Forces.
2024-08-10

Eight construction workers are killed near Sevastopol, Crimea, in an overnight fire at a barracks.
2023-02-2

Ukrainian Navy forces strike Russian Navy patrol boat "Vasily Bykov" with missiles in the Black Sea.
2022-03-7

Russia returns three Ukrainian Navy vessels it seized during an incident in the Kerch Strait last year.
2019-11-18

Russia stops three Ukrainian Navy vessels from passing under the Kerch Strait Bridge by blocking it with a cargo ship. Russia claims they violated her territorial waters and ignored warnings. The navy vessels and their crews are seized after shots were fired. Russia says three Ukrainians were wounded. According to Ukraine, six of their sailors are wounded. Ukraine denies their ships did anything wrong.
2018-11-25

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Crimea for the first time since the annexation, arriving in Sevastopol for Victory Day celebrations.
2014-05-9

Russian troops capture Novofedorivka, an airbase of the Ukrainian Navy in the western region of the Crimean Peninsula.
2014-03-22

Armed men – thought to be Russian – attempt to seize a Ukrainian military base in Sevastopol, withdrawing soon afterwards.
2014-03-7

The European Union freezes the assets of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, two of his sons, and dozens of his advisers.
2014-03-6

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference, saying that “force isn’t needed right now” after deploying roughly 16,000 troops to Crimea.
2014-03-4