A guide to the fifth week of his presidency.
In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
For the United States to put its considerable clout behind a German political party whose leaders minimize Nazi crimes is a blunder of historic proportions.
Las fuerzas de Moscú están a cinco kilómetros de Dnipropetrovsk, una provincia que no han invadido hasta ahora. Si entran, el avance supondría un golpe moral para Ucrania y complicaría cualquier negociación territorial.
The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands.
President Trump on Friday continued to bash President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and pressure him for mineral rights.
As a senator, Marco Rubio prided himself on challenging tyrants. But as secretary of state, President Trump has tasked him with helping to potentially turn Russia from an enemy into an ally.
The bloc announced new steps to prevent threats to undersea lines after Sweden discovered damage to one east of Gotland island.
We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.
Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
The American opposition to a draft of a Group of 7 statement marking the third anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine comes after President Trump blamed Kyiv for starting the war.
European officials were not sure what to make of the secretary of state’s measured assessment of Washington’s apparent pivot toward Moscow.
La mayoría de los republicanos del Congreso han moderado sus críticas o han cedido ante el presidente mientras este ignora lo que una vez fueron los principios básicos de política exterior de su partido.
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed the plot to blow up drone goggles. But it was unclear how much effect the scheme had on Russian forces.
Readers warn that the Trump administration’s defunding of medical research will cost lives. Also: President Trump’s remarks about Ukraine.
European officials knew the president’s win would threaten the fundamental precepts of the post-World War II order. But the speed at which it is unraveling has created a crisis of enormous proportions.
En el inicio de las conversaciones de paz en Arabia Saudita, el presidente Trump dejó claro que los días de aislar a Rusia han terminado y sugirió que Ucrania tenía la culpa de haber sido invadida.
Dozens of employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections have been reassigned or forced out, according to current and former officials.
President Trump’s description of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as a “Dictator without Elections” echoes the Kremlin’s messaging.
We explain what President Trump may do with them.
Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow.
Riyadh is hosting U.S., Russian and Arab officials for high-stakes talks on Ukraine and Gaza, more proof of its regional clout and warm relations with President Trump.
The president wants to create a revolution abroad. This Opinion columnist would love to see a plan.
As he seeks to negotiate a peace deal with Moscow, President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.
Some of the most vocal critics of Vladimir V. Putin and proponents of the United States’ role as a global defender of democracy have acquiesced to Mr. Trump on Russia.
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.
This is a humiliating month to be an American.
Readers discuss developments involving the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Europe. Also: The Republican attack on higher education; the Eric Adams case.
A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.
Investors seem open to the prospect of peace talks, but Western companies face a dilemma just three years after many retreated from the country.
Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.
The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.
The West has fractured, and Putin knows it.
Many people in Russia expressed relief that an end to the conflict in Ukraine seemed nearer and that the hardships of war, and the shunning of their country by much of the world, may soon end.
Plus, an asteroid alert (for 2032).
Many of President Trump’s media allies were quick to celebrate this week’s negotiations, a contrast to the deep unease expressed by the foreign policy establishment.
As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.
Funcionarios de ambos países se reúnen en Arabia Saudita para hablar del fin de la guerra en Ucrania y el restablecimiento de las relaciones entre ambos países.
¿Cómo serían las conversaciones? ¿Quién participaría? ¿Qué aspecto podría tener un acuerdo? He aquí nuestra guía sobre las posibles conversaciones de paz en Ucrania.
El problema es que si tenemos otros tres años y 11 meses así, no habrá Estado de derecho en Estados Unidos.
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties were on the table.
The release of Kalob Byers Wayne, who was arrested on drug charges on Feb. 7, came on the eve of talks about the war in Ukraine.
Por qué el nuevo gobierno debilitará inexorablemente la seguridad económica del país.
La reunión formaba parte de una oleada de diplomacia que se espera se centre en Ucrania esta semana, mientras los funcionarios de Trump se preparan para iniciar conversaciones con Rusia por su cuenta.
President Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Russia could keep at least some of the Ukrainian territory it had captured. Andrew Kramer, the New York Times bureau chief in Kyiv, explains how this would le...
The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own.
President Trump’s embrace of Russia is a major setback for the relationship between Europe and the U.S.
Marco Rubio’s visit to Riyadh, his first as secretary of state, came amid uncertainty about the future of Gaza and Ukraine and criticism of unilateral U.S. moves over the wars in both places.
Balancing Ukraine’s sovereignty with Russia’s demand for its own “security guarantees” promises to be the hardest part of any negotiation. But experts see possible compromises.
The problem is that if we have another three years and 11 months of this, there won’t be a rule of law left in the United States.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said for the first time on Sunday that he was “ready and willing” to deploy troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security.
The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.
European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.
The Trump team’s vacillations may not just cost Ukraine its independence; it could set the stage for a cataclysm.
President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.
Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.
A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as part of his campaign against organizations he says are funded from abroad.
Talks involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and two other senior Trump officials would be the first between American and Russian delegations since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
En la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich, Olaf Scholz acusó al vicepresidente de EE. UU. de intervenir de forma inaceptable en las próximas elecciones alemanas.
It was a crash course in geopolitical realities as the new defense secretary stepped onto the world stage.
Trump and Musk are destroying the magic of America.
After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.
Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
His comments came on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where anxious European officials had hoped to learn more about U.S. plans to broker peace talks.
After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Diplomats at the Munich Security Conference were uttering “appeasement,” with all its historical resonance, to describe the Trump administration’s approach to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the defense secretary made a ‘rookie mistake.’
His comments shocked attendees at the Munich Security Conference and seemed to target efforts to sideline the hard-right party the Alternative for Germany.
Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4. The Kremlin denied the accusation.
President Trump said China and Russia should halve their military spending and limit nuclear weapons. You first, China said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.
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Maggie Haberman, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David Sanger join Michael Barbaro to discuss the projections of power by the Trump administration over the past week.
La alianza de defensa mutua ha sido fundamental en la guerra de Ucrania contra Rusia, pero el futuro es incierto con el presidente Trump de nuevo en el cargo.
Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal that it was too early to talk about specific territorial or security arrangements.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.
The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
Ukraine’s government wants to restore the country’s frontier to where it was before Russia launched its first invasion more than a decade ago. The U.S. defense secretary said that was “unrealistic.”
Trump’s recent moves, including a conversation with Putin and a demand for Ukrainian mineral rights, are worrisome signs for Zelensky.
The call has raised concerns among some European leaders that Ukraine could effectively be sidelined in any peace negotiations.
In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.
The kingdom has increasingly emerged as a mediator in the Russia-Ukraine war, leveraging ties with both sides as well as with President Trump.
Vladimir Putin’s call with President Trump reinforced the Russian leader’s view that Moscow and Washington should decide the fate of Ukraine — and other weighty matters.
El Times entrevistó a soldados rusos que dijeron que se enfrentan a una lucha brutal para desalojar a las decididas fuerzas ucranianas de una franja de territorio ruso. Los civiles atrapados temen una catástrofe.
El embajador de Rusia en Corea del Norte dijo que la rehabilitación de soldados rusos heridos es “uno de los claros ejemplos de nuestros lazos fraternales”.
El presidente de Estados Unidos dijo que había tenido una “larga y muy productiva” llamada con el mandatario ruso. También afirmó que habló con el presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski.
Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.
Russia’s ambassador to North Korea said that its Asian ally is also hosting Russian children orphaned by its war against Ukraine, as the two nations deepen ties.
The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison.
President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.
The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians fear catastrophe.
After more than three years in Russian captivity, Marc Fogel returned home and was greeted by President Trump at the White House late Tuesday.
President Trump welcomed Marc Fogel hours after the United States secured his release from Russia.
Mr. Fogel, who had lived and taught in many countries, including Russia for nine years, spent 3 ½ years in Russian custody for having cannabis for medical use, and is in poor health.
Taking over the enclave, forcing Palestinians to leave and preventing them from returning would be clear violations of international law, experts say.
Deterring Russia from re-invading Ukraine, once this war ends, could require 150,000 troops and American help with air cover, intelligence and missile defense, experts say.
Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week.
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work.
The Ukrainian authorities are rounding up recruits. Relatives huddle at a center on the edge of Kyiv for a chance to see loved ones before they’re shipped to war.
The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.
Russia said that discussions with Washington were underway regarding potential peace talks to end the war nearly three years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
The move cast uncertainty on the leadership role of the United States in the global body. The president also withdrew from the U.N.’s Human Rights Council and stopped funding UNRWA.
The country should not be just a buyer of weapons but also a supplier, thanks to its spirit of innovation.
Menos de dos meses después del derrocamiento de Bashar al Asad, una delegación de diplomáticos rusos llegó a Siria para iniciar las negociaciones sobre las bases de Moscú en ese país.
Ukraine has already emphasized that by supporting its war effort, the U.S. could get access to the country’s wealth of critical minerals like lithium and uranium.
Ukrainian defense companies say they cannot sign new contracts or receive payment — potentially jeopardizing future supplies to already struggling troops.
Armen Sarkisyan, the founder of a separatist battalion fighting in eastern Ukraine, died after an explosion in an apartment complex, according to reports citing the Russian authorities.
At least 14 people were killed in Poltava, Ukrainian officials said, blaming Russia. Four died in Sudzha, a Russian town held by Ukraine, in a strike each country blamed on the other.
The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria.
Corea del Norte envió sus mejores soldados para ayudar a Rusia en su guerra contra Ucrania. Pero tras sufrir graves pérdidas durante meses, han sido retiradas de la línea del frente.
Before its members went into exile, Ic3peak was one of the most notorious musical acts in Russia. Now, it’s pivoting to a more gentle sound.
The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic alternatives. But many Russians have found workarounds.
North Korea sent its best troops to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine. But after months of suffering severe losses, they have been taken off the front line.
A Boston skating club confirmed that Yevgeniya Shishkova, 52, and Vadim Naumov, 55, were on the plane that crashed after colliding with a military helicopter.
The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who has had a tense relationship with President Volodymyr Zelensky, accused him of trying to usurp the powers of elected officials in the capital.
Miembros de la comunidad estadounidense de patinaje artístico viajaban en el avión comercial que chocó con un helicóptero militar en las afueras de Washington. Regresaban de un campamento de patinaje en Kansas.
Members of the U.S. figure skating community were traveling on the commercial jet that collided with a military helicopter outside Washington. They were returning from a training camp in Kansas.
El avance de Rusia subraya la eficacia de utilizar su abrumador número de tropas para atacar sin descanso, obligando a a las fuerzas ucranianas a retroceder.
Perhaps none of President Trump’s picks for his new cabinet embody his worldview better than former Representative Tulsi Gabbard.
Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got angry.
Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic on Velyka Novosilka that has enabled their recent capture of town after town in eastern Ukraine.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news.
Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things different this time.
A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.
Todo parece indicar que ambos líderes planean examinar a fondo la relación entre Moscú y Washington. Esto podría incluir la reanudación de las conversaciones sobre armamento nuclear.
President Trump jabs at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with flattery. But there are notable signals in their jousting, including a revived discussion about nuclear arms control.
Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.
Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.
Rusia afirma que Kiev derribó un transporte militar con 65 prisioneros de guerra ucranianos. Ucrania no ha confirmado su papel, no ha identificado los cuerpos que recibió ni ha dicho cómo ocurrió.
During his campaign, Donald J. Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war by Day 1 of his new term as president. Jeanna Smialek, the Brussels bureau chief for The New York Times, looks at how he described the war in an appearance at the World Economic For...
Russia’s president flattered his American counterpart as “smart” and “pragmatic,” and repeated Mr. Trump’s baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
Videos showed fireballs over a facility in Ryazan, 110 miles southeast of Moscow. Kyiv is seeking to disrupt Russian military logistics and put pressure on the country’s economy by striking its oil industry.
North Korea’s leader has grown more assertive since their last efforts at diplomacy ended in failure — and now has Russia at his side.
Rusia está perdiendo más hombres. Pero cada baja ucraniana acerca más al Kremlin a la victoria.
Russia says Ukraine shot down a military transport carrying 65 captured Ukrainians. Ukraine has not confirmed its role, identified the bodies it received, or said how it happened.
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.