The next two or three months in Ukraine are likely to be exceedingly violent, in a war that has already been the deadliest in Europe in the past 80 years. Marc Santora, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia...
Las sobrecargadas fuerzas ucranianas carecen de efectivos y artillería frente a las fuerzas rusas dispuestas a absorber bajas impresionantes.
Britain allowed Ukrainians to use Storm Shadows a week after President Biden authorized the use of American-made missiles inside Russia, a shift from a more cautious military strategy.
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La inusual alerta se produjo un día después de que Ucrania utilizara por primera vez misiles balísticos de fabricación estadounidense para atacar territorio ruso.
The decision is the latest in a series of moves by the U.S. and Russia that have escalated tensions between the two.
The decision is the latest in a series of moves by the U.S. and Russia that have escalated tensions between the two.
Overextended Ukrainian forces lack manpower and artillery against Russian forces willing to absorb staggering casualties.
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Some vintners in the former Soviet republic are seeking to break a politically risky dependence on Russia and focus more on high-value European and American markets.
The unusual alert came a day after Ukraine used American-made ballistic missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time. At least two other Western embassies closed for the day after the warning.
Suecia, Finlandia y Noruega, vecinos de Rusia, han actualizado hace poco sus recomendaciones para que los ciudadanos se preparen para sobrevivir una guerra y otras crisis.
Para el Kremlin, el presidente electo es un presagio del colapso estadounidense.
Iran has raised the possibility it would stop expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity of 60 percent — very close to the level needed for a weapon, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says.
El decreto firmado por el líder ruso se produjo días después de que el presidente Joe Biden autorizara el uso por parte de Ucrania de misiles suministrados por EE. UU. para ataques dentro de Rusia.
The Ukraine war has not only shattered millions of lives and shaken Europe. It also has inured Washington to the use of nuclear threats as leverage.
Sweden, Finland and Norway have recently updated their advice for citizens preparing to survive war and other crises, wary of Ukraine’s grinding fight against Russia.
Investigadores y funcionarios afirman que el ejército ruso sufrió su mayor índice de bajas en octubre. La llegada de miles de soldados norcoreanos a Rusia también plantea dudas sobre su capacidad.
El ataque se produjo solo dos días después de que el presidente Biden autorizara a Ucrania el uso de armas de largo alcance estadounidenses para atacar objetivos en Rusia.
La designada por el presidente electo Donald Trump para ocupar el cargo de directora de inteligencia nacional ha hecho saltar las alarmas entre los responsables de seguridad de EE. UU.
The attack came just days after President Biden gave Ukraine permission to use the weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
A decree signed by the Russian leader, though long planned, came days after President Biden authorized the use of U.S.-supplied missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia.
To the Kremlin, the president-elect is a harbinger of American collapse.
Researchers and journalists have found innovative ways to measure Russia’s ability to keep fighting.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be the director of national intelligence has raised alarms among national security officials.
La decisión sobre armar a Ucrania con ATACMS ha sido un tema delicado desde la invasión a gran escala de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en febrero de 2022.
La medida supone un cambio importante en la política estadounidense y ha dividido a los asesores presidenciales a dos meses de la toma de posesión del presidente electo, que ha prometido limitar el apoyo a Ucrania.
Plus, the 50-yard field goal phenomenon.
President Biden has granted permission for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes, but looming over Ukraine’s newfound latitude is the ascent of President-elect Trump.
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Donald Trump’s re-election to the American presidency is a threat to global peace and security.
In a major policy shift, the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use the ballistic missiles within Russia.
With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
The attack lasted hours and involved around 120 missiles and 90 drones, officials in the country said. At least nine people were killed.
He should force a settlement to save lives and avoid more destruction.
It was one horrific day of the war in Ukraine when a missile fell on the Adonis clinic in Kyiv.
The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, which announced the death, did not say how or where he died.
Accusations of betrayal have already tarnished the movement once led by Aleksei Navalny. Now, the election of Donald J. Trump, a Putin admirer, further complicates the opposition efforts.
The president said stronger ties with South Korea and Japan are working, but did not address whether President-elect Donald J. Trump would continue his approach when he takes office in January.
The hourlong call centered on what German officials said was a push to end the war in Ukraine. It was the first in two years between Mr. Putin and Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Liberal democracy offers moral constraints without problem-solving. Populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.
There is safety in simply trusting that the worst will happen. To dare to hope has always been the risk.
Donald Trump’s re-election victory has dominated media coverage in Russia, where there is restrained optimism about the prospect for better relations.
El apoyo a la cesión de territorio a cambio de la paz está aumentando entre los ucranianos. Según una encuesta reciente, el 32 por ciento de los ucranianos apoyaría un acuerdo de este tipo, frente al 19 por ciento del año pasado.
President-elect Donald J. Trump may accelerate the timetable for a truce. Kyiv views guarantees against renewed aggression as crucial to any settlement.
The U.S. secretary of state met with European allies rattled by the American election results at a critical moment for Ukraine and the alliance.
Una ley que prohibiría lo que denomina “propaganda” que disuade a los rusos de tener hijos está a la espera de ser aprobada por la cámara alta del parlamento.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering nominees who fit more comfortably within his often erratic worldview, in which deal-making reigns over ideology.
A host of problems that will need more subtle and sophisticated uses of force and coercive diplomacy will confront the new president.
The country’s lower house of Parliament passed a law that would ban what it calls “propaganda” discouraging Russians from having children.
The mother of a 7-year-old boy accused the Moscow pediatrician, Nadezhda Buyanova, of telling him that his father’s death while fighting in Ukraine was justified.
In the volatile Caucasus region, Russia and Iran, often seen as united in their aims, are vying to secure trade routes and influence. That leaves Western countries facing an unusual dilemma.
Moscú ha podido concentrar estas tropas sin tener que retirar fuerzas del este de Ucrania, su principal prioridad, dicen funcionarios de Estados Unidos.
The United States can no longer depend on the loyalty of its friends.
Officials said more than 30 drones had been intercepted over suburban areas of the Russian capital in what was the biggest such attack since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Ukrainian officials expect a counteroffensive in western Russia to begin in the coming days as North Korea’s troops train with Russian forces.
Adm. Rob Bauer warned against any peace deal that was too favorable to Russia, arguing that it could undermine American interests.
The case, in which two soldiers murdered nine members of a family after breaking into their home, was a rare prosecution over crimes against civilians in Ukraine.
It’s impossible to say how many widows the war in Ukraine has created because Kyiv closely guards its casualty figures. But estimates suggest they number in the tens of thousands.
Disillusionment with the world that emerged from the Cold War has fueled a long-gathering revolt against the established order.
El presidente electo, acompañado del empresario, habló desde Mar-a-Lago con el líder de Ucrania. No está claro si discutieron algún cambio en la política de EE. UU. hacia Ucrania.
The long-serving prime minister, a champion of ‘illiberal democracy,’ has been politically isolated in much of Europe. But he has found common ground with the former and soon-to-be new U.S. president.
Elon Musk was with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago when the president-elect spoke with Ukraine’s leader. It is not clear if they discussed any change in U.S. policy toward Ukraine.
A reporter thought of his city in the west of Ukraine as a haven from Russian bombs — until a strike hit his street.
The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.
Los rusos cercanos al Kremlin mostraron optimismo ante la posibilidad de que Donald Trump contribuya a poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania según las condiciones de Rusia.
Russians close to the Kremlin voiced optimism that Donald J. Trump could help end the war in Ukraine on Russia’s terms. Vladimir V. Putin said Mr. Trump’s remarks on ending the war “deserve attention.”
Another Trump term could spur Europe’s efforts to stand on its own, but it is far from clear its leaders will seize the moment this time.
Moscow has been using decoy drones with no warheads to overwhelm defenses, and surveillance drones and strike drones to gather intelligence, Ukrainian officials said.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has often shown disdain toward Ukraine and its leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky.
For the past four years, President Biden has argued that the first Trump term was a blip in American history. The election has proved that President-elect Donald J. Trump was no aberration.
As U.S. president, Donald J. Trump will inherit a role as Ukraine’s chief benefactor. But he has been skeptical about continuing aid to Kyiv.
Las tropas norcoreanas forman parte de lo que funcionarios ucranianos y occidentales estiman que es un contingente de unos 10.000 soldados enviados para reforzar a las fuerzas rusas.
Western and Ukrainian officials have called the appearance of North Korean forces on the battlefield a major escalation.
Officials reported election-related threats in Georgia, Maine, Arizona Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio. The F.B.I. said many of the threats “appear to originate from Russian email domains.”
Western officials are investigating whether devices planted at shipping hubs in Europe may have been a test run by Russian operatives for placing them on planes bound for the U.S.
Officials anticipate a rise in false narratives in the days and weeks after the vote.
Russian officials feel disrespected by the Democrats and betrayed by Donald J. Trump, who lavished praise on President Vladimir V. Putin but made decisions the Kremlin saw as benefiting Ukraine.
Russia, and to a lesser extent Iran, will most likely flood social media with misinformation on Election Day and for weeks afterward, the agencies said.
Groups from Russia and other countries could continue to stoke political discord until the election is certified in January, intelligence agencies say.
With fewer men willing to fight, Russia is focusing on cash incentives for those who sign up, seeking to avoid an unpopular draft while still increasing the ranks of soldiers.
Three recent videos have sought to undermine confidence in the security of the vote.
Weapons supplies are no longer Ukraine’s main disadvantage, American military officials say.
The Russian mercenary group operated with little pushback in the West African nation — until it launched one of its most ambitious missions.
Human rights watchdogs say Azerbaijan is in the midst of a vicious campaign of repression. But in global geopolitics, this energy-rich Caucasus country now has a lot of leverage.
A second Donald J. Trump presidency would almost certainly mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees, untethered to any policy process, at a moment of maximum international peril.
American agencies have assessed that China dislikes the growing partnership between Russia and North Korea. The State Department has raised the troop issue with Chinese diplomats.
Russia gained more territory in Ukraine in October than in any other month in the past two years.
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The launch, into waters west of Japan, came shortly after the United States and South Korea criticized the North for sending troops to join Russia’s war.
The Pentagon needs what the company offers to compete with China even as it frets over its potential for dominance and the billionaire’s global interests.
Moscow is employing a variety of tactics, including torture and forced Russian citizenship, to try to obliterate Ukrainian identity, former detainees and human rights groups say.
Ocho años después de que Rusia interfiriera en las elecciones presidenciales de 2016, la influencia extranjera sobre los electores estadounidenses se ha vuelto más sofisticada.
A mural spanning an entire city block in Manhattan symbolizes the thousands of Ukrainian children who have been taken by Russian forces.
The Russian leader’s emphasis on nuclear prowess has been seen as an attempt to deter Western military aid to Kyiv.
A muted response to Ukraine’s “victory plan” and steep challenges on the battlefield leave Kyiv searching for a Plan B.
Last week’s BRICS summit showed how the balance of global power increasingly eludes the West’s grasp.
Eight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could have outsize consequences in the 2024 race.
Los rusos en la zona de la invasión ucraniana han descrito haber visto señales de encuentros violentos, así como un trato respetuoso por parte de los soldados ucranianos.
Several thousand North Korean soldiers have arrived in Russia’s western Kursk region, where they are expected to support Moscow’s efforts to dislodge invading Ukrainian forces.
Cities in eastern and southern Ukraine are increasingly being hit by Russian glide bombs, converted gravity bombs that can be guided to targets, often landing without detection, residents and officials say.
Russians in the area of Ukraine’s invasion have described seeing signs of violent encounters, as well as respectful treatment from Ukrainian troops.
Over the last month, North Korea’s role aiding Russia in its war in Ukraine has significantly escalated. U.S. officials reported that North Korean soldiers are already operating in the Kursk region in western Russia, where Ukrainian forces are sta...
The Georgian Dream party won 54 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said Sunday, a result that critics of the government fear could derail the country’s pro-Western course.
The video, which purported to show mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania being ripped up, was part of Moscow’s efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election, the officials said.
Thousands of soldiers from an elite unit of the Korean People’s Army began arriving on Wednesday and are expected to try to help expel Ukrainian forces from Russian territory.
Footage was filmed in the Russian Far East, which the United States says is hosting thousands of North Korean soldiers.
Las fuerzas nucleares de Corea del Norte han sido el centro de la preocupación mundial. Pero su ejército convencional es vasto y poderoso, aunque esté lastrado por la escasez, la corrupción y el aislamiento.
The group’s attacks in the Red Sea have driven up shipping costs and forced the United States and its allies to increase their naval presence in the region.
Military spending and recruitment are causing the country’s economy to overheat, leaving regulators in a struggle to rein in rising prices.
At a meeting of emerging economies, Vladimir Putin positioned himself as a respected and powerful leader, ignoring the condemnation he receives from the West.
We explain North Korea’s decision to send troops to help Russia.
If he gives Ukraine the capability of striking deep into Russian territory, that decision would be hard for a new president to undo.
La guerra en Ucrania ha llevado al líder ruso a alejarse de la cooperación internacional respecto al arsenal nuclear de Corea del Norte y a fortalecer su alianza militar con Pionyang.
The move gives Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, leverage to ask President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for a lot in return.
“If there are images they are a reflection of something,” he said in a tongue-in-cheek answer to whether Pyongyang had sent troops to help with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The invasion of Ukraine has led the Russian leader to jettison cooperation with the West over North Korea’s nuclear arsenal in favor of an ever-deepening military alliance with Pyongyang.
The North’s nuclear forces have been the focus of global concern. But its conventional military is vast and empowered — even if it is hobbled by shortages, corruption and isolation.
Los lazos militares entre Rusia y Corea del Norte parecen haberse fortalecido desde junio. Ahora hay reportes de que Kim Jong-un envió soldados al frente ucraniano.
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Two veterans of Trump’s term look ahead to a potential second term and what it would mean for the world.
La decisión de Corea del Norte de enviar soldados para ayudar a Rusia a someter a Ucrania puede poner a otro aliado del Kremlin, China, en una difícil situación diplomática.
President Vladimir V. Putin, hoping to prove he is not the pariah that the West has tried to make him, this week welcomed leaders from China, India and Iran, among other nations. Then, there was the NATO member.
North Korea’s decision to dispatch troops to help Russia subdue Ukraine may put another Kremlin ally, China, in a tough spot diplomatically.
John F. Kirby, a national security spokesman at the White House, said that North Korea had sent at least 3,000 soldiers into training sites in eastern Russia.
A meeting between the two leaders comes just two days after they settled a tense border dispute in the Himalayas. But experts said their long-term geopolitical rivalry would persist.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called the situation “very, very serious,” though he said that what the soldiers were doing in Russia was “left to be seen.”
A torrent of falsehoods, from home and abroad, have undermined what was once a shared faith in the honesty of America’s democracy.
North Korea’s supply of munitions has already been critical to the Russian war effort. Now, its troops appear to be poised to join the fight in Ukraine.
The romance between Georgia and the West is on the rocks.
El estancamiento de la colaboración entre científicos occidentales y rusos está retrasando los esfuerzos para monitorear el Ártico, el cual se está calentando cuatro veces más rápido que el promedio mundial.
The two governments said they will coordinate more on defense, with British and German troops conducting joint military exercises on NATO’s eastern border.
The move, confirmed by a Pentagon official, is in line with a U.S. policy change aimed at shoring up Ukraine’s ability to fight the war against Russia with its own weapons.
Foreign powers including Russia and Iran could move quickly right after the vote to undermine the democratic process, intelligence agencies warn.
The Russian leader wants to cast himself as a global statesman, even as the U.S. and its Western allies try to isolate him.
En sus memorias póstumas, recopiladas con la ayuda de su viuda, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny se enfrenta al hecho de que Vladimir Putin podría conseguir silenciarlo. El libro mantendrá “vivo su legado”, dijo Navalnaya.
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said an agreement was close. She also rebuked China’s lending practices and called for more debt relief.
Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.
El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.
The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.
The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.
The war in Ukraine. Hamas’s attack on Israel. Inflation. The former president has insisted that none would have occurred if he had remained in office after 2020.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made highly choreographed appearances in an effort to project power and control, and U.S. officials suggested Gen. Sergei Surovikin was probably being held.
Mientras prestábamos atención a la pandemia, China y Ucrania, los caminos hacia la prosperidad y los intereses comunes se han oscurecido.
While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, an active-duty airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
Oil prices soared 7 percent on Sunday night after the group’s move to cut 1.2 million barrels a day.
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