Russia announced on Saturday that 10,000 troops had finished month-long military drills near Ukraine and would be returning to their permanent bases. The news comes amid accusations from Western countries that Russia is plotting an invasion of Ukraine, something the Kremlin denies. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the operations for the Southern Military District forces had taken place across a stream of southern regions, including Rostov, Krasnodar and Crimea, a peninsula Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014. The West has accused Russia of amassing some 100,000 troops near its border with Ukraine. (full story)