Yalta

American  

[yawl-tuh, yahl-tah] / ˈjɔl tə, ˈjɑl tɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in Crimea, in southeastern Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.

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Yalta British  

/ ˈjaltə /

noun

1. a port and resort in S Ukraine, in the Crimea on the Black Sea: scene of a conference (1945) between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. Pop: 80 552 (2005 est)

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Yalta

Johnson was in Kyiv to attend the Yalta European Strategy Conference, along with other dignitaries including national security advisoes from the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

His remarks at the Yalta European Strategy forum - to an audience of Ukraine's top leadership and international supporters - provide an unusual and detailed insight into UK policy towards the war.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

"The economy is in the most difficult situation," Ukraine's Prime Minister Sergiy Koretsky said during the annual Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

The second is that Central and Eastern European countries have a history of great powers divvying up their lands, first in 1938, in Munich with Adolf Hitler, and then in Yalta 1945, with Josef Stalin.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2025

I came to Yalta for a few days, and one evening I met Chekhov on the quay.

From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin