Fears grow about Ukraine’s imperiled nuclear plant.
Amid signs of offensives and counteroffensives, concern is rekindling about what it will mean for the biggest nuclear plant in Europe.
China is trying to improve relations with the European Union just as the United States is pushing the bloc to pick sides.
In Avdiivka, as in Bakhmut and other devastated places on the front lines, most residents left long ago, but there are holdouts.
The proposed court, a joint effort by Ukraine and other nations, would investigate the Kremlin for the crime of aggression, but there’s a catch: President Vladimir V. Putin could be immune from prosecution.
Rights activists worry that the separation of a teenage girl and her father after they criticized the war in Ukraine might signal a toughening of the crackdown on dissent.
Dodging a contentious debate on participation, Olympic officials instead issued rules that could allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to earn places in next year’s Games.
Aleksei Moskalyov was convicted over antiwar comments on social media that came to light after his daughter made a drawing at school.
The former director of Europe’s largest nuclear facility describes abuse of Ukrainian workers and careless practices by the Russians who took control of the plant.
To help soldiers quickly distinguish friend from foe, the Pentagon is issuing playing cards with pictures of 52 different NATO weapons systems.
La intensificación de la represión por parte del Kremlin se ha extendido a las redes sociales, y su ejemplo más emblemático es el de una joven rusa de 20 años.
The official met with President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the Zaporizhzhia plant, amid worries that a Ukrainian offensive could raise the already-high risk of disaster.
Adding to crises like the pandemic, recent stress in the banking system is a new threat to world growth, experts at the organization said.
Ukraine, with far more pressing needs, plans to rebuild the colossal Mriya cargo plane, a symbol of pride that was destroyed last year in a battle for its airfield.
Mass protests in Israel.
The proposal from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, talked of since last year, would be provocative without changing the West’s battlefield calculus in Ukraine.
As thousands of ex-prisoners fight and die in Ukraine, honoring their memory is becoming a patriotic imperative in Russia. But some committed crimes their old neighbors cannot forget.
The battle for the city has been the most violent of recent months, creating an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis for the few remaining civilians.
People who would not be allowed anywhere near the battlefield in a U.S.-led war are active on the Ukrainian front, with ready access to American weapons.
Both sides expect a Ukrainian offensive while the Bakhmut fight continues, but the head of the Wagner mercenary group said Russia must be clearer about its goals.
Although U.S. officials have cautioned against seizing Russia’s reserves in foreign banks, others say it’s “crazy” not to after Moscow’s war of aggression.
Despite Pentagon resistance, a bipartisan group stressed that Congress had voted to legalize support for the court’s Ukraine war investigations.
For 20 years, Marina Ovsyannikova worked for Russian state TV. What compelled her, shortly after Ukraine was invaded, to storm a live broadcast and tell viewers they were being lied to?
War has forced Ukraine to become skilled at treating amputees, but there are too many for its overtaxed medical workers. Some are finding their way to a prosthetics clinic in Minnesota.
After multiple accounts of tourists behaving badly, its governor wants Russia and Ukraine to lose access to Indonesia’s visa-on-arrival program.
The flow of arms to Ukraine has exposed a worrisome lack of production capacity in the United States that has its roots in the end of the Cold War.
The bank released a significantly higher figure as European Union leaders approved plans to provide Kyiv with one million artillery shells over the next 12 months.
Another similar ban by the council that oversees ice hockey shows the issue has not waned.
Also, a World Bank estimate on the cost to rebuild Ukraine and a prison sentence for India’s opposition leader.
China has been trying to build support for its proposal to start peace talks, but Ukraine’s allies hold that its call for an immediate cease-fire would only help Russia consolidate territorial gains.
The arrival of the aging MIG-29s is not expected to significantly change battlefield dynamics, and the planes will most likely be used for spare parts for Ukraine’s own Soviet-era jets.
The Chinese leader has edged ever closer to Russia, while distancing China from countries that have helped it develop over the past four decades.
For now, they are holding on with inferior Soviet-era tanks, but relish the idea of taking on the Russians with modern Western battle tanks.
The Ukrainian leader also condemned a deadly Russian missile attack against an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia.
The Florida governor has never been the internationalist that some old-guard Republicans wanted or imagined him to be. A close reading of his record reveals how he might lead the U.S. abroad.
He met with President Andrzej Duda on the second day of his visit to Poland.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia falsely claimed the material had a “nuclear component.” Many armies, including Russia’s, use it in weapons.
Instead of focusing on a solution to the war in Ukraine, the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow reinforced China and Russia’s shared opposition to American dominance.
A war-fueled rift between the living clerics loyal to Moscow and those loyal to Kyiv is coming to a head.
The case of Olesya Krivtsova, a Russian student who ended up on the Kremlin’s official terrorist list, has underscored the perils of using social media to criticize the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
America needs to accept more peacemakers in the world.
On the second day of the Chinese leader’s state visit in Moscow, Xi Jinping and Vladimir V. Putin declared an enduring economic partnership, in an effort to insulate their countries from punitive Western measures.
Also, an I.M.F. loan to Sri Lanka and the Japan-U.S. final in the World Baseball Classic.
The two leaders did not reveal any progress toward achieving peace in Ukraine.
At the end of a 10-week crash course at a U.S. Army base in Oklahoma, the Ukrainians are essentially running their own training in preparation for the front lines.
The Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014, has been a staging ground for other attacks and an increasingly attractive target for Ukraine.
“Kyiv Eternal,” by the composer and sound artist Heinali (real name Oleh Shpudeiko), submerges listeners in the sounds of the prewar Ukrainian capital.
Prosecutors are investigating war crimes against Americans but are mainly focused on helping Ukraine to hold Russians accountable for atrocities.
China has shipped more than $12 million in drones to Russia since it invaded Ukraine, in an indication of quiet collaboration between the two.
El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, le dio la bienvenida a Xi Jinping, el máximo dirigente chino, y mencionó brevemente el plan de paz de Pekín para Ucrania, sin dejar de subrayar la sólida cooperación entre Moscú y Pekín.
Fumio Kishida, who has been seeking a more active role for his country in international affairs, made an unannounced trip to meet with Ukraine’s president.
Kremlin-appointed authorities in Crimea denied the claim saying that all the drones had been “aimed at civilian objects.”
President Vladimir V. Putin welcomed Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, to Russia, briefly noting Beijing’s peace plan for Ukraine but stressing Moscow and Beijing’s enduring partnership.
The U.S. secretary of state said the Chinese leader’s visit indicated that Beijing felt “no responsibility” to hold Russia accountable for atrocities in Ukraine.
Reaction to an international court’s arrest warrant for the Russian leader. Also: Labor in Qatar; working in the office; family policy; public housing.
India and South Africa are among the nations that have not criticized Russia for invading Ukraine. Some others have supplied military aid.
En los barrios exclusivos y los centros comerciales palaciegos de la mayor ciudad de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, los rusos ricos pueden volver a empezar sin tener que cortar los lazos con su país de origen.
This week’s meeting between the leaders of China and Russia marks another key moment in the deepening relationship between the two powers.
The Chinese leader is expected to talk to Vladimir V. Putin about Ukraine and other issues.
China is calling Xi Jinping’s visit a “trip for peace,” but he is unlikely to risk straining the country’s ties with Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin.
Also, Donald Trump says his arrest is imminent and UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse.
A festival responds to the assaults and insults of war by celebrating the composer who shaped the nation’s contemporary music, Borys Liatoshynsky.
Readers respond to David Brooks’s column about sadness among progressives. Also: Fleeing Oklahoma; Swiss neutrality and Ukraine; homeless in America.
Chinese officials say Xi Jinping’s upcoming trip to Moscow is a peace mission. But U.S. and European officials say he aims to bolster Vladimir V. Putin.
Sending unarmed “diggers” into the front lines and near certain death, Russian troops are making slow but inexorable progress.
The trip was the Russian leader’s first to territory his forces captured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and came shortly after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes.
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin highlights a practice that the Kremlin has not concealed and says will continue.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia marked the anniversary of his illegal seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula, signaling defiance to the world and business as usual to his own people.
Although Ukrainians excel at putting up a brave front, a tremendous amount of suffering is being kept bottled up and sometimes bursts out.
Global divisions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine widened as China said Xi Jinping would go to Russia to help make peace, in a move widely seen as a stark sign of support for President Vladimir V. Putin.
A highly symbolic move by the International Criminal Court, which accused President Vladimir V. Putin of war crimes, carries moral weight.
The company cut ties with the star Russian soprano for her refusal to denounce Vladimir Putin after the invasion of Ukraine. An arbitrator said it must pay her under the terms of her contract.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin and a Russian official for war crimes. Here’s a look at the warrant and what it could mean for Russia’s leader.
With a difficult election coming in May, the Turkish president keeps insisting that Sweden is harboring alleged Kurdish terrorists and other dissidents.
Arrest warrants were issued for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, for the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children.
A year into the war, institutions face pressure to note the Ukrainian roots of artworks and artists long described as Russian. It’s not always simple to write a wall label.
Ukrainian officials and military analysts do not expect the MIG jets pledged so far by Poland and Slovakia to fundamentally alter the battle in the skies.
Finland joining the alliance after decades of military nonalignment would be a major shift and represents a significant diplomatic and strategic defeat for Russia.
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia next week and speak with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
A survey asked hundreds of wartime Ukrainians what they dreamed about. Many replied: the war.
En sus intervenciones públicas mezcla declaraciones grandilocuentes y críticas dirigidas al ejército ruso, mientras trata con cuidado a la jerarquía política y con respeto al presidente Vladimir Putin.
Because of the war in Ukraine, U.S. carriers have to take the long way on flights to and from Asia, giving an advantage to foreign rivals flying the same routes.
The Polish leader said he would send jets designed by the Soviet Union to help Ukraine fend off Russian forces. It was unclear if other allies might follow suit.
The 42-second clip shows two Russian fighters spraying the American aircraft with a substance the Pentagon says is jet fuel.
DeSantis and Trump project weakness and moral ambiguity in the face of a weaker power.
The sabotage, the Polish interior minister said, was planned “at the request of Russian intelligence” and “aimed at paralyzing the supply of equipment, weapons and aid to Ukraine.”
A Russian fighter jet collided with an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance drone before it crashed into the Black Sea.
The military is using thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold the eastern city, which could jeopardize a planned springtime campaign.
Ukraine and Russia are both running low on ammunition, and both are scrambling to replenish their stocks and gain a competitive edge.
It has long been a theater of competition between Russia and the West, a dynamic supercharged by the Ukraine war.
Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian government.
The incident was the first known physical contact between the Russian and American militaries since the war in Ukraine began.
The incident was the first known physical contact between the two militaries since the war in Ukraine began last year.
The two leaders have gotten an awful lot wrong.
Months after Ukrainian forces pushed out Russian occupiers, the city of Kherson remains very much a war zone.
Long dominated by Russia’s navy, the Black Sea has been the scene of Ukrainian defiance. It’s also been a rare point of agreement between the two countries.
The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans.
Also, U.S. markets seem to stabilize and Xi Jinping tightens his control over China’s economy.
Inside a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv, the growing mental trauma of the war is written on every soldier’s face.
Yevgeny Prigozhin says his Wagner force will shrink when the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is done. Now he’s maneuvering on the home front, for the favor of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Russians, fleeing their country and its war, have quickly reshaped the societies of nations like Georgia and Armenia.
The Florida governor, on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, broke with Republicans to attack President Biden’s foreign policy and align more closely with Donald Trump as he weighs a presidential bid.
Moscow’s forces have stepped up artillery and infantry assaults across eastern Ukraine, trying to improve their position before either side attempts a major breakthrough.
One-year extensions for those who fled in the first months after Russia’s invasion will be granted on a case-by-case basis, officials said.
Also, Russia is set to face war crimes charges and China’s new premier seeks to reassure investors.
The film followed Aleksei Navalny, a prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he investigated his own near-fatal poisoning in 2020.
The cases before the International Criminal Court would accuse Russia of abducting Ukrainian children and of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
In the exclusive neighborhoods and palatial shopping malls of the United Arab Emirates’ biggest city, wealthy Russians can build a new life without having to cut ties to their home country.
Arms control began at a low point during the Cold War. Are we there again?
The Alpine state makes arms that Western allies want to send to Kyiv. Swiss law bans this, driving a national debate about whether its concept of neutrality should change.
Attacks on the northeast town in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine continued on Sunday.
Britain’s defense intelligence agency said that Russian forces had taken control of most of Bakhmut’s east, but advances farther west might be challenging.
Some who till the breadbaskets of Ukraine have already lost three seasons of planting to war. With mines and cluster bombs widely scattered, normal harvests seem far in the future.
Desde el inicio de la guerra de Ucrania, muchas mujeres rusas embarazadas viajan al país sudamericano donde obtener la ciudadanía es relativamente fácil, si dan a luz ahí.
The rapport between Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain hints at a mending of their countries’ relationship.
Dmytro Kotsiubailo, better known as “Da Vinci,” was killed near Bakhmut on March 7.
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this opera adaptation of Tolstoy seemed unperformable. But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry.
Since the Ukraine war, pregnant Russians have been flocking to the South American country where obtaining citizenship is relatively easy — if your child is born there.
Although the U-turn was considered a victory for civil society, activists on both sides of the issue suggested that the fight was not over.
President Biden and the European Commission president met to discuss how to effectively counter Russia and a potential trade deal for electric vehicles.
New energy sources to replace oil and natural gas have been easier to find than kicking the dependency on Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear superstore.
Of 81 missiles fired, six were hypersonic weapons, among Russia’s newest and most advanced, which are all but impossible to shoot down.
The nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has been forced to resort to its emergency diesel generators six times since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Also, Russia hits targets across Ukraine.
New satellite pictures of the eastern Ukrainian city, where a brutal battle has been raging for months, showed bridges over a strategically important river had been destroyed.