The “why” is Russia. But at a summit focused on keeping President Trump happy, discussion of that is expected to be muted.
The loss is a tragedy for Russia.
The Pentagon said there were no reports of casualties after the strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and President Trump said it was time for peace.
President Vladimir V. Putin met with Iran’s foreign minister on Monday, but did not explicitly call out Israel or the United States for their strikes on Russia’s longtime ally.
While foreign wars may expose autocratic fragility, they rarely create the conditions necessary for democratic change.
Putin and the ayatollahs want the same kind of world.
Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing to record highs.
Ukraine’s security service is holding classes at high schools to alert teenagers of Russian efforts to recruit them.
Moscú ha esperado arreglar las relaciones con Estados Unidos mientras sigue librando la guerra en Ucrania, pero la insistencia de Putin en impulsar su ofensiva ha tenido un costo diplomático.
Moscow has been hoping to restore ties with the United States while continuing to wage war in Ukraine. On Friday, it acknowledged that Washington has a different view.
El régimen iraní se encuentra en su posición más difícil 46 años después de la revolución que lo llevó al poder. Pero ¿significa esto el fin?
Los expertos afirman que China ve la guerra en Ucrania como una oportunidad para recopilar información de las tácticas de guerra modernas y el armamento occidental, incluso a costa de un aliado.
Fred Grandy was upset by the United States’ reversal in its support for Ukraine, his family said. This week, he was among the 28 people killed in a drone and missile assault.
The annual economic forum in St. Petersburg used to host multibillion-dollar deals and performances by global music stars. With the war in Ukraine still raging, the mood has shifted.
The Iranian regime finds itself in its most difficult position 46 years after the revolution that brought it to power. But does it mean the end?
A plan to increase military spending at the level President Trump wants is becoming clearer, as are its shortcomings.
Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.
Those who are declaring the NATO alliance dead should put aside their fatalism. They involve military spending, Ukraine and U.S. troops.
Bridget A. Brink, who stepped down as ambassador to Ukraine in April out of objections to President Trump’s pro-Russian approach to the war, is now speaking out and running for office at home.
Thousands of North Korean laborers are already toiling in Russia. A new contingent is headed to the region where North Korean troops fought Ukraine.
En su intervención en la reunión del Grupo de los Siete, el presidente Trump criticó la decisión de expulsar a Rusia del bloque tras la “anexión” de Crimea por parte de Moscú en 2014.
Analysts say the Kremlin is prioritizing its own war against Ukraine, as well as its relations with Gulf nations that don’t want to see a stronger Iran.
President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.
Russia is advancing around Kostyantynivka and in the Sumy region with small, fast-moving units as both sides try a new tactic of using motorcycles and civilian cars to quickly cross open terrain.
The president said he would bring a quick end to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and get China to bend on trade and Iran on its nuclear program. Instead, conflict is escalating.
It’s the first time in three years of war that Russian troops have entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a sign of battlefield momentum.
Policymakers in many countries assume that birthrates have fallen because people want fewer children, but a global study says financial insecurity is driving those decisions.
The region of Transcarpathia has seen hardly any Russian attacks over the past three years. “We don’t have the same experience of war,” a resident said.
The assault continued Moscow’s stepped-up drone and missile attacks, which have been ratcheting up for months with nightly bombardments on regions and cities in Ukraine.
Jon Bernthal’s strange journey taught him to bring a surprising softness to his tough-guy characters.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, announced a proposal meant to ramp up pressure on Moscow.
Moscow has stepped up drone and missile attacks despite U.S. pressure to work toward a cease-fire. The strikes intensified after a wave of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia on June 1.
For months, the family of Stephen James Hubbard could not find him in the Russian prison system. New text messages cast doubt on his conviction.
“Learn to speak Russian,” the secretary-general of the alliance warned nations unwilling to make politically unpopular budget decisions.
Most of the drones and missiles were intercepted, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, and there were no immediate reports of widespread damage.
David Leonhardt sits down with M. Gessen to unpack this new phase of the Trump era.
Mostly Russian visitors now cavort along its historic beaches, hoping to avoid the Ukrainian drones whizzing toward military targets.
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.
The United States is becoming just another country with a corrupt strongman personalizing and profiting from power.
Kharkiv’s mayor described Russia’s first strike, an overnight swarm of drones, bombs and missiles, as the “most powerful attack” on the city since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Moscow has long been suspicious of foreign messaging apps. WeChat’s weak encryption makes it vulnerable.
A directive from Russia’s domestic security service was part of a cache that was advertised online by a cybercrime group.
Russia’s spy hunters are increasingly worried about China’s espionage, even as the two countries grow closer.
El ataque del viernes, en el que murieron al menos cuatro personas en el país, se produjo dos días después de que Rusia prometiera represalias por un asalto con drones a sus bases de bombarderos estratégicos.
El futuro del suministro energético de Europa se ha convertido en una fuente de tensión y vulnerabilidad, mientras el continente trata de trazar un rumbo independiente.
Jonathan Hall, a British government adviser, said in an interview that hostile states were paying local criminals to carry out acts of violence, espionage and intimidation.
Air defense crews in the capital were racing to combat a large-scale bombardment before dawn on Friday, officials said.
David French and Megan K. Stack on why Trump’s many promises to end the conflict “in 24 hours” was a fantasy.
Lo que ocurrió en Rusia puede ocurrir en Estados Unidos, o en cualquier otro lugar.
El presidente de EE. UU. habló con el mandatario ruso Vladimir Putin, en medio de la escalada de ataques entre Rusia y Ucrania, incluso cuando sus funcionarios han entablado conversaciones directas.
The belligerent language and the recent strikes make clear that a wide gap separates Ukraine and Russia, even as their officials have been engaged in direct talks.
President Trump said the Russian leader told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he would respond to the drone assault on its airfields.
Con las elevadas cifras de bajas y la lentitud de los avances territoriales de Rusia, el presidente Vladimir Putin podría enfrentarse durante años a una guerra de desgaste en Ucrania.
What Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian airfields revealed about modern warfare.
Assaults in Russia and Ukraine have shown major military powers that they are unprepared for evolving forms of warfare, and need to adapt.
La desaparición de KleptoCapture indica la falta de voluntad del gobierno de Donald Trump para combatir los sistemas financieros que permiten el lavado de dinero y evadir impuestos, entre otras cosas.
Europe has the money and the artillery shells, but key U.S. capabilities like operational intelligence and air defense would be difficult to replace.
What happened in Russia can happen in the United States — or anywhere else.
With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.
El ataque de Ucrania a Rusia demostró la capacidad del país de usar drones relativamente baratos para destruir aviones caros y atacar lugares alejados de sus fronteras.
It would be the third such attack. The claim comes two days after one of Ukraine’s most ambitious operations of the war, deep inside Russia.
Kyiv’s attack on the country’s bomber fleet appeared designed to show Russia’s leader that continuing the war carries big risks for Moscow.
The foreign policy scholar Emma Ashford explains what President Trump is really doing in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Aunque aún se desconoce el alcance total de los daños, la operación muestra cómo Kiev ha sido capaz de adaptarse y evolucionar durante la guerra utilizando drones.
Videos and satellite imagery show how the attack unfolded and its aftermath.
The attack demonstrated Ukraine’s ability to use relatively cheap drones to take out expensive aircraft and to strike sites far from its borders.
The strike set several aircraft on fire, video showed, and dealt a symbolic blow to Moscow’s relentless bombing campaign.
The Metropolitan Opera, hoping to revive support for Kyiv, released an excerpt from “The Mothers of Kherson,” about abducted Ukrainian children and their relatives.
While the full extent of the damage is still unknown, the operation shows how Kyiv has been able to adapt and evolve over the war using drones.
Plus, the oldest corporation on the continent is closing.
Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him.
El ministerio de Defensa ruso dijo el domingo que aviones no tripulados ucranianos atacaron aeródromos en cinco regiones y que varias aeronaves se incendiaron.
After more than three years of war, Russia and Ukraine are engaged in direct and public talks to end the fighting, but their positions remain far apart.
Ukraine launched one of its broadest assaults of the war against air bases inside Russia, targeting sites from eastern Siberia to Russia’s western border.
In a rare statement acknowledging casualties within its ranks, the Ukrainian military also said that 60 other soldiers were wounded.
Hours later came a report of another bridge collapse, also in western Russia, involving a freight train. And Ukraine claimed it blew up a military train in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Kim Jong-un seized on Russia’s need for support in its war against Ukraine. His reward is a rapidly modernizing military that threatens the delicate balance of power on the Korean Peninsula.
A bipartisan duo met with the Ukrainian president and made the case for Congress to impose harsh economic penalties on Moscow for its continuing offensive.
Both Kyiv and Moscow have been maneuvering to set the terms and tempo of any talks to end the fighting.
La doble campaña de Moscú de intensificar los ataques en el frente y bombardear las ciudades ucranianas ha reducido aún más las perspectivas de poner fin a los combates.
Readers discuss the confrontation between President Trump and Harvard. Also: Standing up to Vladimir Putin; silencing authors; self-driving trucks.
The American president’s preference for praising and excusing the Russian leader has yielded no progress toward peace in Ukraine.
Moscow’s dual campaign of intensified frontline attacks and bombardment of Ukrainian cities has further reduced the prospects for an end to the fighting.
The president is right about wanting to end the war in Ukraine but wrong about threatening to walk away from cease-fire talks.
El Kremlin ha abrazado cada vez más al dictador soviético y a su legado, utilizándolos para exaltar la historia rusa en tiempos de guerra, aunque sigue siendo una figura profundamente divisiva en Rusia.
The sweeping order applied to hundreds of thousands of people legally in the country through programs put in place for Ukrainians, Afghans and others.
I’ve seen the signs before. I’m seeing them now.
The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of war, but he remains a deeply divisive figure in Russia.
In the U.S., the re-enactment of historical battles has long been a niche hobby. But fake battles that echo an ongoing war are a relatively recent phenomenon.
En las últimas semanas, Estados Unidos ha parecido distanciarse del conflicto en Ucrania y ha enviado mensajes contradictorios sobre los esfuerzos diplomáticos para terminar con la guerra.
It remained to be seen whether President Trump’s latest comments indicated a new aggressive phase against Russia.
A group of G.O.P. senators has grown more vocal about urging penalties on Russia for its aggression against Ukraine, offering a counterpoint to President Trump’s hands-off stance.
Plus, Disney’s unexpected “rebel” star.
Snaking power lines are part of Moscow’s goal to harness the power of the Zaporizhzhia facility, according to Greenpeace.
President Trump said he was not happy with President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision to unleash one of the largest offensives in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
President Trump says that the Russian president has “gone absolutely CRAZY’’ with attacks in Ukraine, but has so far refused to join Europe with its newest sanctions.
“Está enviando cohetes a ciudades y matando gente, y no me gusta nada”, dijo el presidente Trump sobre su homólogo ruso.
With diplomatic efforts to reach a cease-fire appearing remote, and President Trump apparently abandoning the process, Russia has been escalating its assaults on Ukrainian cities and on the battlefield.
NATO’s leader is looking for little drama and a focus on new spending goals, not disagreements over Ukraine.
President Trump’s recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement where the United States, China and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence.
“He’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all,” President Trump said of his Russian counterpart.
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.
Also, Russia tries to cut off Bakhmut, and countries reach an ocean biodiversity deal.
Readers discuss a guest essay by Christopher Caldwell that blamed the U.S. for an escalation in the war. Also: Mask mandates; the next pandemic; YouTube.
Also, Adani Enterprises pulls its offering and soldiers die on both sides in Bakhmut.
Also, Russia’s resilient economy and Sri Lanka’s enduring struggle.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
Also, China’s uncertain economic recovery.
Russia is isolated by its invasion of Ukraine and needs China more than ever. But China, facing a Covid crisis, is in no position to risk sanctions.
Also, Ukraine peace talks seem far-off.
Also, Ukraine is fighting to retake a city in the Donbas.
Also, an emerging picture of China’s Covid crisis.
Also, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to lead Israel again and the week in culture.
In China, Russia and the United Kingdom, unmarked sheets of white paper have become a potent symbol of defiance.
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
Readers discuss a guest essay about recent misdeeds by four billionaires. Also: Pandemic cautions; moderate Republicans; Russian brutality in Ukraine.
Plus Russia says it is retreating from Kherson City and markets try to parse China’s “zero Covid.”
Plus Myanmar gets closer to Russia and a dire climate report.
When Russia closed its airspace, it upended the decades-long strategy for making Finland a European travel hub to and from the East.
Readers respond to the latest Russian attacks in Ukraine. Also: The wonders of math; pandemic spending; Republicans and crime.
Readers discuss new aspects of the workplace during the pandemic. Also: A political balance; Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev; student newspapers.
Xi Jinping, who is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin, will seek to project confidence as a global statesman at a time of grave challenges at home.
Plus India’s growing economy and China’s “zero-Covid” trap.
Plus the decline in American life expectancy and the latest on Typhoon Hinnamnor.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
Readers debate the party’s strategy of supporting far-right G.O.P. candidates it thinks it can beat. Also: Covid and schools; Ukraine’s students; Kansas and abortion.
Plus Russia prepares for show trials and Taiwan does not rise to China’s provocations.
Plus new details about explosions in Crimea and revelations about the victims of Seoul’s floods.
The departure of a grain-filled vessel from Odesa was hailed as a victory against global hunger. But experts say the crisis is so big that no single advance can reverse it.
Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout?
Russia looks to Africa.
Under pressure as tight oil supplies hurt the U.S. economy, Biden will go to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with M.B.S.
Plus the conviction of an ailing Hong Kong activist and President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to Iran.
Plus Ukrainian civilians bear the brunt of Russia’s war and new details after Shinzo Abe’s death.
Plus Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong and Ukraine takes back Snake Island.
La COVID-19, el cambio climático y la posibilidad de una crisis alimentaria global demuestran que los problemas del mundo están muy ligados entre sí. Y también las soluciones.
No single country can solve the problem of rising food and fuel costs.