Possible Clues:

• 'With the wrongdoing, it started a war in there (3,6)'
• Battle site of the 1850s
• Setting of a 2014 crisis
• At the start of 18 across, it's an offence to contact a place in the Ukraine
• What was wrong with a war there
• A peninsula in the Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
• With Dorothea around, it's not lawful in Russia
• One may be committed - a bit of Russia
• A gust of air round England's capital, dry air