War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Antiwar Russians are being sent back as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, despite facing imprisonment and other dangers.
Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.
Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.
It was the latest in a series of new conditions that President Trump had announced on punitive action against Russia for its war against Ukraine.
Drones in Poland and GPS jamming attributed to Russia have intensified a debate over whether the West should impose stiffer penalties for such “hybrid warfare.”
The quake briefly triggered tsunami alerts at nearby coastlines, less than two months after a larger earthquake sent tsunami waves across the Pacific.
Increased air patrols, air defense systems and other protections will be mobilized over Eastern Europe.
El presidente Trump insiste en que puede resolver los conflictos mundiales. Pero cuando tanto aliados como adversarios parecen ignorarlo, se encoge de hombros en una actitud de “qué se le va a hacer”.
El episodio pone de relieve la necesidad de que la OTAN refuerce sus defensas contra la guerra moderna de drones y aprenda las lecciones de Ucrania.
President Trump often insists he can bring peace to global conflicts. But when allies and adversaries alike appear to be ignoring him or testing American will, he adopts a what-can-you-do shrug.
A continent already on edge over the Ukraine war sees a Russian challenge to NATO readiness and to an America that wants to disengage from Europe.
Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.
El líder ruso parece decidido a demostrar él que dictará las condiciones de cualquier fin de la guerra.
Fue la primera vez que aviones de la alianza atacaron objetivos enemigos en espacio aéreo aliado, tras lo que el dirigente polaco calificó de “provocación a gran escala”.
Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace during an attack on targets across the border in Ukraine, in what the Polish military called an “act of aggression.” It was not clear exactly how many drones had crossed into Poland.
Poland denounced what it has described as an incursion by more than a dozen Russian drones. It would not be the first time Russia’s war effort had spilled beyond Ukraine.
With escalating airstrikes, the Russian leader appears determined to demonstrate that he will dictate the terms for any end to the war.
The Polish military called the incursions an “act of aggression.” It said the drones crossed the border during a wave of Russian strikes in Ukraine.
The president, thwarted at home, has become increasingly frustrated and weakened at a critical moment for his country and Europe.
The Ukrainian leader said that the strike on older people in a Donetsk village should prompt a global response.
While a decisive victory remains elusive, a Russian military resurgence is guiding Vladimir Putin as he pushes for a peace deal on his terms.
Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front has been hit dozens of times.
Analysts have linked major attacks to important geopolitical events as the Kremlin tries to strengthen its hand in talks.
Tanks have been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. Drones made them evolve.
El Kremlin ha iniciado una campaña para influir en las elecciones parlamentarias de Moldavia, en lo que podría convertirse en un nuevo modelo de injerencia electoral en internet.
Russia launched hundreds of exploding drones and decoys across Ukraine in the largest air assault so far in the war, killing at least five people and setting a government building in Kyiv ablaze.
The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.
The attack set a government building on fire in an area of the Ukrainian capital that is rarely damaged.
A plan to buy warships shows how Europe is bolstering defenses amid worries about Russian aggression and President Trump’s isolationist policies, analysts say.
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China.
La presencia de Kim Jong-un en el desfile militar chino fue una señal de su creciente influencia geopolítica y de que su país está empezando a ser aceptado como potencia nuclear “de facto”.
La medida se ajusta a los objetivos del gobierno de Trump de reevaluar la ayuda exterior y hacer que Europa asuma más responsabilidad por sus capacidades militares.
Adolescentes son reclutados para realizar ataques encubiertos puntuales tras las líneas enemigas.
The Russian leader made the threat a day after European leaders said they were willing to deploy forces on the ground to secure an agreement to end the war.
Mr. Kim’s presence at a Chinese military parade was a sign of his growing geopolitical leverage and that North Korea was being accepted as a de facto nuclear power.
Leaders on the continent are trying to show the U.S. president that they are serious about laying the groundwork to end the war — and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not.
Ending the longstanding program is expected to impact hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone toward countries that border Russia.
La extraordinaria cumbre del presidente Trump con el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin el mes pasado aún no ha dado resultados concretos sobre la guerra en Ucrania.
Los avances médicos y la geopolítica están relacionados para dos líderes septuagenarios que han sugerido que su tiempo en el cargo está lejos de terminar.
The Kremlin’s vision of national security comes at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty, underlining the challenges of striking a peace deal.
Teenagers are being recruited for one-off covert attacks behind enemy lines.
President Emmanuel Macron of France is expected to host a meeting of leaders who will review options for protecting any peace with Russia.
The man, Vadim Kruglov, 37, was found “lying in a pool of blood,” the authorities said. Officials are investigating his death as a possible homicide.
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.
During the Eurasian summit in China, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had conversations with leaders in the backseat of his presidential state car, offering him an ideal setting for deepening ties.
Medical advances and geopolitics collide for two septuagenarian leaders who have suggested that their time in office is far from over.
El mensaje fue subrayado por los líderes que asistieron, entre ellos Vladimir Putin y Kim Jong-un, representantes de Estados que han desafiado o cuestionado el dominio de EE. UU. del orden mundial.
Rides in his hulking bulletproof Aurus with the Indian and North Korean leaders offered the Russian leader an ideal setting for deepening ties.
Without trust between America and China on A.I., the risks extend far beyond their borders.
President Xi Jinping of China oversaw the country’s ambitious display of military power and diplomatic influence during a parade attended by the leaders of Russia and North Korea.
China used a parade of fighter jets, missiles and goose-stepping troops to honor the country’s wartime sacrifice and issue a defiant warning to rivals.
The show of firepower in Beijing, to be attended by President Vladimir V. Putin, is designed to show that China is strong enough to resist pressure from foreign powers.
Los líderes euroasiáticos se reunieron con entusiasmo con el dirigente ruso en una cumbre celebrada esta semana.
The Russian and Chinese leaders drew on a shared view of their countries’ roles in World War II to cast their modern-day partnership as a challenge to the West.
Kyiv sees a well-equipped army as a stronger deterrent to Moscow than any Western pledges to defend it. It is working to attract billions to buy more arms.
Eurasian leaders eagerly met the Russian leader at a summit this week, as President Trump has helped ease his isolation over the war in Ukraine.
Su exhibición de amistad en China pretendía proyectar una alternativa al liderazgo mundial de Estados Unidos, aun cuando persisten serias diferencias entre ellos.
The Bulgarian authorities believe that Russia disrupted navigation signals that would have been used by a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, European officials said.
Their display of friendship in China was aimed at projecting an alternative to U.S. global leadership, even as serious differences among them remain.
Mining materials to make cement, gravel and a host of other common products require an explosive that is becoming more expensive and limited in supply.
The leaders of Russia, China and India shared a moment of bonhomie as a security summit in eastern China on Monday.
Hitting an American-run factory and European diplomatic offices, the Kremlin appeared to signal that it would resist Western efforts to make peace and protect Ukraine, analysts and officials said.
With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.
It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.
Moscow is hosting a big summer festival as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. Katrin Bennhold, a senior international reporter for The New York Times, talks with Ivan Nechepurenko, a Times reporter in Russia, about the spectacle and what it says about Russian public opinion more than three and a half years into the war.
A festival known as Summer in Moscow showcases the city’s transformation into an ultramodern metropolis. But the feast can’t last forever.
A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent.
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.
The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.
Mr. Shchedrin drew on Russian literature for stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama.
Las autoridades militares estadounidenses y europeas están cada vez más preocupadas por estos vuelos, a pesar de que los actos de sabotaje rusos han disminuido.
Los ataques alcanzaron un edificio residencial de cinco plantas, un centro comercial y edificios utilizados por gobiernos europeos. Fueron los mayores en la capital ucraniana desde la cumbre en Alaska hace dos semanas.
Emergency workers looked through the wreckage of a five-story apartment building early Thursday after a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, killed more than a dozen people.
U.S. and European military officials are increasingly concerned about the flights, even as Russian acts of sabotage have declined.
The strikes on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday injured at least 22 people and left others trapped under rubble, officials said.
He will get a chance to meet the leaders of China and Russia, North Korea’s two most important allies, at a time when he is being wooed by Washington and Seoul.
It starts with flattery.
The two countries appear to be trying to raise political pressure on each other and send signals to Washington in case peace talks move forward.
For the first time, Russian forces seized villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a minor but symbolic gain that gives the Kremlin another bargaining chip.
The question of whether to send soldiers to a postwar Ukraine is the latest chapter in an evolving relationship between Germans and their military.
En Rusia, Peter Ruzavin era un prodigio del periodismo de oposición. En Járkov se convirtió en un cabo con uniforme ucraniano.
En los últimos días, Ucrania ha vivido una de las ráfagas más intensas de actividad diplomática desde que comenzó la invasión a gran escala de Rusia hace más de tres años. Sin embargo, todavía no existe un acuerdo de paz ni un alto al fuego.
Para el presidente Trump, la coherencia es menos importante que la diplomacia de líder a líder.
Pregnant Ukrainian soldiers say they are fighting for the future of their country and for their children.
After President Trump held talks with President Vladimir V. Putin, he said the Russian leader would be willing to meet with Ukraine’s president. That seems less and less likely.
For President Trump, consistency is less important than leader-to-leader diplomacy.
On the ground in Kharkiv, the choices are starkly different.
La disputada región es donde comenzó la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania hace una década. Decenas de soldados ucranianos han muerto defendiéndola. ¿Renunciaría ahora Ucrania a ella?
The Ukrainian leader held talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and was set to meet with President Trump’s envoy, Keith Kellogg, amid continuing diplomatic efforts to end the war.
When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are looking at maps of Ukraine and deciding which parts Russia should have, it’s time to make waffles.
Talks of a cease-fire in Ukraine have centered on the Donbas, a valued region for both sides and where most of the fighting is taking place. Michael Schwirtz, a global intelligence correspondent, and Anatoly Kurmanaev, a foreign correspondent covering Russia, break down who the Donbas is important to and why.
The contested region is where Russia’s war in Ukraine began a decade ago. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have died defending it. Would Ukraine give it up now?
Spy fiction thrives on vermismilitude — shy are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foriegn characters?
A generation of Ukrainian men has been shaped by the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them.
Bolton, un referente republicano que ha asesorado a varios presidentes, se ha convertido en un persistente crítico de Trump desde que dejó la Casa Blanca.
The Russian president sent his American counterpart a photograph of the two of them from their face-to-face meeting.
El presidente de EE. UU. dispone de pocas fuentes de asesoramiento independiente justo cuando intenta negociar el fin de la invasión rusa a Ucrania, quizá la negociación más delicada de su presidencia.
A Republican mainstay who served multiple presidents, Mr. Bolton has become a persistent Trump critic since leaving the White House.
It was the clearest sign yet that President Trump’s push for an imminent summit was faltering.
The online DeepState map, based on geolocated combat footage and tips from Ukrainian Army sources, draws 900,000 views each day and acts as a counterbalance to the military’s omissions.
President Trump has few sources of independent advice just as he is trying to broker an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, perhaps the trickiest negotiation of his presidency.
Nearly a week after President Trump’s Alaska summit, his suggestions of imminent breakthroughs have not come to pass.
Three years ago, India ramped up its imports of Russia’s oil. Now President Trump is demanding that India reverse course and quit its cheap Russian oil habit or face debilitating tariffs. Alex Travelli, a Times reporter, explains.
The mass return of fallen soldiers is one of the few concrete results of U.S.-orchestrated truce negotiations.
The Ukrainian leader returned with a U.S. commitment to participate in security guarantees for Kyiv in a postwar settlement.
Los rusos envían pequeños grupos de soldados a pie, quienes son más difíciles de detectar. Dado que iniciaron algunas mesas de negociación, el ejército intenta ocupar la mayor cantidad de terreno posible.
The secretary of state and national security adviser will meet with European counterparts on Thursday in an effort to advance a peace process that so far has gotten little traction.
European and Ukrainian officials call the idea ludicrous, showing the large gaps in peace negotiations.
As negotiations over the war carry on, President Vladimir V. Putin is pushing hard with tactics that have evolved over three and a half years.
Plus, censoring prestige TV.
Todas las guerras acaban en una negociación, pero rara vez el agresor acude a la mesa exigiendo territorios que no controla.
Los dirigentes de Alemania, Francia, el Reino Unido y otros partidarios de Ucrania se han unido de forma excepcional para ayudar a influir en el presidente estadounidense.
President Trump has repeatedly bent other leaders to his will, simply by refusing to budge. But there is one person who refuses to budge even more than President Trump, and that is Vladimir Putin of Russia. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, takes us inside how Trump has been engaging with Russia and Ukraine.
Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What happened?
Diplomats scrambled to come up with detailed proposals for security guarantees and other sticking points following two high-level summits in Alaska and Washington.
President Trump says President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has agreed to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, but Mr. Putin has not confirmed.
The Kremlin is keeping its options open, but analysts said the Russian leader would probably only meet with his Ukrainian counterpart to accept a capitulation.
Trump doesn’t feel any gut need to bring Ukraine into the West or understand that Putin’s invasion of that country was just his latest march to break up the West.
Putin has demanded that Ukraine give up the entirety of the Donbas region before Russia stops fighting. Here is a look at Russia’s advances into Ukrainian territory since in 2014.
The leaders of Germany, France, Britain and other supporters of Ukraine have come together in exceptional ways to help sway the U.S. president.
At best their meanings have changed. At worst, they no longer make sense.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a remarkably different White House visit on Monday than the ambush he walked into six months ago. Michael Schwirtz, the global intelligence correspondent for The New York Times, explains how President Zelensky courted President Trump and managed to put the ball back in Vladimir V. Putin’s court.
Readers weigh in on the Ukrainian president’s meeting with President Trump and European leaders. Also: When teens vote.
El presidente Donald Trump, el presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, y líderes europeos se reunieron en un esfuerzo cordial pero poco definitivo para poner fin a la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania.
President Trump had suggested a meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s leaders could be a potential next step on the path to peace. Russian state news media barely mentioned the idea.
El presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, y otros líderes europeos han aprendido un par de cosas sobre cómo negociar al estilo de Trump. También Vladimir Putin.
The remarks were a considerable shift for France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who called Moscow a potential threat for many European countries.
The Kremlin’s goal is to destabilize Europe, and attacks on infrastructure are a preferred weapon, a new report said.
Ukrainian analysts watching their president’s return to the White House were braced for a “nightmare.” They took cautious encouragement from what they saw instead.
Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came after European leaders met with President Trump to try to find a path toward peace.
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.
Ukraine and its European allies are seeking to persuade President Trump that a cease-fire is a prerequisite for peace talks with Russia.
Russia seems unlikely to agree to Western troops in Ukraine as part of any deal to end the war.
And while we’re at it, let’s think about the phrase “land swap.”
Jolted by President Trump’s support for possible land swaps in Ukraine, they went to back President Volodymyr Zelensky, a move that appeared to have accomplished its goal.
The leaders presented a relatively united front and appeared to agree on the next steps in the effort to halt the fighting between Ukraine and Russia. But much remained unresolved.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders have learned a thing or two about negotiating, Trump-style. So has Vladimir Putin.
President Trump has offered only vague assurances of security guarantees for Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to cut a deal with Russia.
By putting the interests of what Trump calls “peace” ahead of the interests of freedom, we are all-but guaranteeing that Ukraine will lose both.
President Trump met with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and several other European leaders on Monday to discuss the terms for a potential cease-fire with Russia. Mr. Trump also spoke with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, although it was unclear if he would directly participate in talks with Mr. Zelensky.
President Trump has not committed to adding American forces to the mix in Ukraine. No one has detailed publicly what form defenses would take, but there are several options.
President Trump is expected to press Ukraine to make concessions to end the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky will likely ask what, if anything, Russia is offering in return.
Los papeles, que describen la secuencia de los acontecimientos e incluyen los números de teléfono de varios funcionarios, fueron encontrados el viernes y enviados a NPR por un huésped del hotel.