Russia said U.S. aircraft approaching its border over the Black Sea had turned off their transponders, which are needed for...

Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of sending saboteurs into Crimea to carry out terrorist acts.  

  NATO leaders upgrade Black Sea to ‘strategic importance’

 

Black Sea is "not a NATO sea," a Russian official said

  U.S.'s deployment of aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean was a show of force which deepened a chill in...

 

  It calls for the "accelerated reconstitution and completion of strategic Russian positions" in the Black Sea.

  Russia quickly condemned the war games as a threat to an already shaky five-month truce agreement in Ukraine.

  Rescuers pulled 24 bodies from the sea at the mouth of Istanbul's Bosphorus strait on Monday and rescued seven people after...