Serviceman kills 3 civilians, 1 soldier in Russian-held Crimea
A serviceman in Russian-held Crimea opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians, killing four people and wounding four, officials said.
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A serviceman in Russian-held Crimea opened fire on fellow soldiers and civilians, killing four people and wounding four, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will ramp up attacks on Russia in an operation "aimed at compelling it to end the war."
Ukraine said it attacked the bridge linking Russia and the Crimea Peninsula on Tuesday. The bridge has since reopened. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more details.
Ukraine says it has struck a crucial bridge that links Russia with the occupied Crimean peninsula. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has the latest.
Ukraine is claiming an underwater explosion that closed down a bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, according to security officials. This comes after both countries reportedly made little progress in direct peace talks held on Monday. CBS News national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more.
President Trump said last week that the Kremlin occupation of Crimea is not being discussed right now, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the occupation is a "done deal." Russia does not "negotiate its own territory," Lavrov said. Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly took the territory from Ukraine in 2014, and returning the territory is considered a red line for Ukraine.
There is growing uncertainty on the future of America's role in facilitating peace between Ukraine and Russia. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone Tuesday about ending the war in Ukraine. The leaders agreed that the movement towards peace would begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.
President Trump is expected to speak with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about a possible ceasefire deal with Ukraine. As negotiators work to end the war, Mr. Trump said they are already discussing "dividing up certain assets." Daniel Fried, former U.S. ambassador to Poland, joins "America Decides" with analysis.
Ukrainian-born ballet phenom Sergei Polunin was rewarded for backing Putin's attacks on his native country, but he appears to have fallen from Moscow's graces.
"The Russian captain's legs were blown off and he died of blood loss," a Ukrainian security official told the AFP news agency about the assassination.
The employee died after she "went to clean a cage with three lions, without shutting the bolt of a door between two rooms of the enclosure," investigators said.
Ukraine is struggling to hold Russian forces at bay on land, but it claims to have sunk 3 Russian warships in less than 2 months.
There are new questions about Ukraine's claims it killed the admiral in charge of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in a missile attack Monday. Russian state television appeared to show Viktor Sokolov working and attending a video conference Tuesday. BBC News correspondent James Waterhouse has more.
Sevastopol serves as the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said 1 service member was missing as crews worked to put out a fire at the headquarters of its navy's Black Sea fleet.
Russian ships under repair were damaged and 24 people wounded in the strike, Moscow said, as it unleashed a salvo of drones on Odesa.
One of the goals of the counteroffensive is to advance south through heavy Russian fortifications in a bid to reclaim occupied Melitopol – the gateway to Crimea.
Ukraine's Secret Service says it arrested a woman in connection with an alleged assassination plot against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukraine won't admit attacking the strategic 12-mile road bridge, but says damaging it "means fewer broken Ukrainian lives."
The latest bulletin from British military intelligence on the Ukraine war says Russia appears to be training combat dolphins in occupied Crimea.
It comes after a wave of Russian missile strikes across Ukraine Friday which left at least 23 people dead.
The U.S. military says a Russian jet collided with an American drone over the Black Sea, 75 miles southwest of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. After the incident, the drone was unable to fly and crashed into international waters, where the U.S. is attempting to recover the wreckage before the Russians can get to it. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.