The Pentagon claimed American-supplied weapons were not used to attack a Russian airbase in Crimea, which voted in 2014 to break off from Ukraine and join Russia.

Moscow says a drone attack by the Ukrainian military has wounded six people at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea.

Russia's Medvedev warns that any NATO state encroachment on Crimea could lead to World War III.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denounces the oppression against ethnic Russians in Ukraine’s east as “certainly looking like genocide.”

The Russian foreign minister says his country will not join the US-led NATO.

The Russian foreign minister says the current state of the relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) is “deplorable,” regretting the fact that the bloc’s policy is aimed at restraining Moscow.

The EU's foreign policy chief says the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan has been the most important geopolitical event since Russia "annexed" Crimea.

Russia vows to give tough response to provocations like the episode by a British warship in the Black Sea last month.

Russia tests its air defenses in the Crimean Peninsula, as Ukraine, the US, and their NATO allies kick off war games in the strategic waters of the Black Sea.

Authorities in Russian Crimea on Friday (June 18) ordered the evacuation of parts of the city of Yalta after heavy rain caused major flooding on the Black Sea peninsula.