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.
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.
Times foreign correspondents describe what’s at stake for the world, including China, Israel, Ukraine, global trade and climate.
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.
Plus, American Airlines cracks down on “gate lice.”
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 dirigente ruso espera utilizar la reunión del llamado grupo BRICS, que incluye a China, Brasil e India, para hacer hacer un posible bloque opuesto.
Paul Whelan, el exmarine que fue liberado en agosto, describe el momento de su detención y los largos años de espera hasta su liberación.
The former U.S. Marine describes the moment of his arrest and the long years waiting for his release.
The Russian leader hopes to use the meeting of the so-called BRICS group, which includes China and India, as a counterweight to the West.
As president, she can create a foreign policy fit for the 21st century.
The trip by the U.S. defense secretary comes as Russian forces steadily gain territory in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
Voters were almost evenly split over whether to declare European Union membership a “strategic objective.” Russia has worked hard to sway the outcome.
Fidel Castro once called Cuba’s power plants “prehistoric.” But the country still relies on them, contributing to the longest blackout since the collapse of its former patron, the Soviet Union.
Serhii Hnezdilov, a Ukrainian soldier, said he wanted to draw attention to the need to discharge worn-out soldiers and replace them with fresh conscripts.
Natalia Morari once reported on corrupt business in Moldova. Now she has upset many by having a son with a tycoon accused of corruption, and running against the pro-West president in elections.
A veteran foreign correspondent during the Cold War, he was held on trumped-up espionage charges. He credited President Ronald Reagan with fighting for his release.
The war began when Russia invaded Ukraine, but Donald J. Trump said on a podcast that the Ukrainian president “should never have let that war start.”
Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of assistance could be hurting the military’s ability to respond to a new conflict.
Russia is behind a disinformation campaign in Moldova ahead of a presidential election and a referendum making E.U. membership a “strategic objective,” Moldovan officials and global media companies say.
La propuesta del presidente de Ucrania, que dependería en gran medida de una mayor ayuda de Occidente, ha suscitado una respuesta tibia de los aliados de su país.
Donald Trump se negó a comentar si había hablado con el presidente ruso desde que dejó el cargo. Pero añadió: ‘Si tengo una relación con la gente, es algo bueno’.
The proposal would rely heavily on increased Western assistance. So far, it has drawn a lukewarm response from Ukraine’s allies.
Helping Russia in the war is an opportunity for North Korea to test its new weapons, and Ukrainian officials say the North’s troops are also gaining direct battle experience.
The former president, who once pushed to prosecute a former secretary of state for talking with foreign officials, said that it would be “a good thing” for himself to have secretly kept in touch with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — if he d...
Donald J. Trump declined to comment on whether he’d talked with the Russian president since leaving office. But he added, “If I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”
Top energy officials have fallen and key energy policy decisions have been delayed because of political calculations, lawmakers and experts say, costing Ukraine valuable time in preparing for winter.
Moscow’s forces have been recapturing some villages and land taken in a Ukrainian incursion into Russia. The advances could undermine Kyiv’s hopes of pushing Russia to the negotiating table.
An archival label in the United States was going to release a huge compilation of records from the U.S.S.R. Then Russia invaded Ukraine.
Scientists fighting the spread of infectious diseases on the continent have been targeted online by pro-Russian activists, part of an effort to spread fear and mistrust of the West.
Two new books explore the messy business of uncovering Russian interference in American elections.
Much of what’s still undeveloped offers some the best defenses against climate change.
Un estallido de actividad solar elevada creó el jueves condiciones que mantuvieron la mirada de la gente sobre los paisajes nocturnos en todo el hemisferio norte.
The memoir, which will cover his time in prison and Russia’s move toward autocracy, will be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
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.
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