France Angrily Denies Russian Claim Of Mercenaries In Ukraine France has rejected Russian defense ministry statements saying that a missile strike on Kharkiv took out a unit of French mercenaries earlier this week. Russia's military claimed that "several dozen Frenchmen" were killed

Blinken Repeats "Crimea Is Ukraine" As Kiev Steps Up Attacks On Peninsula On the very day that Ukraine's military issued a very provocative statement saying its forces have destroyed a Russian S-400 missile defense system in Crimea, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed

'Mad Panic' As Towns Near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Evacuated Amid Stepped-Up Ukrainian Shelling The situation Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has just gone from bad to worse as entire residential districts in the vicinity of the facility are being evacuated by Russian authorities.

US Reaper Drone Downed Over Black Sea In "Incident" With Russian Jet A major incident involving a US military drone is being widely reported as happening over the Black Sea on Tuesday, with NATO sources telling AFP there's been an "incident" and that an investigation is ongoing.

Senior Ukrainian Official Confirms Ukraine Orchestrated Truck Bomb Attack On Crimean Bridge; NYT Reports Authored by Chris Menahan via InformationLiberation.com, The New York Times reported Saturday evening that a "senior Ukrainian official" corroborated Russian reports that Ukraine