The Holodomor commemoration came as President Vladimir V. Putin was accused of degrading Ukraine’s power grid to freeze the country into submission.
Like people in other states, Mainers want to show their solidarity with Ukraine. But it’s more than that.
The West thought an artillery and tank war in Europe would never happen again and shrunk weapons stockpiles. It was wrong.
Ukrainian soldiers are firing thousands of shells daily, forcing the U.S. to replace gun barrels across the border in Poland.
“This is the revenge of those who lost,” the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said of Russia’s attacks.
The full extent of Russian war crimes in the city of Kherson and surrounding areas is just coming into focus. These were two of them.
The televised event came amid intensifying public criticism over the conditions recent Russian conscripts have been forced to bear.
Recounting her last state visit to Moscow in August of 2021, Angela Merkel noted that President Vladimir V. Putin would not meet with her alone, as he had done in the past.
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The policy must be in place before an E.U. embargo on Russian oil imports kicks in on Dec. 5. The talks are set to resume next week.
“Every hour is getting harder.” Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s essential services has caused blackouts in hospitals and cut off power and water in cities.
The move would be a setback to President Vladimir V. Putin’s efforts to develop homegrown substitutes for Western technology.
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The scene in a Kyiv hospital was a vivid illustration of the cascading toll Russia’s attacks are having on civilians far from the front lines.
Ucrania está a la ofensiva a lo largo de gran parte de la línea del frente de 965 kilómetros, y los rusos están agazapados a la defensiva. Pero aproximadamente una quinta parte del territorio ucraniano sigue ocupado por Rusia.
Ucrania está a la ofensiva a lo largo de gran parte de la línea del frente de 965 kilómetros, y los rusos están agazapados a la defensiva. Pero aproximadamente una quinta parte del territorio ucraniano sigue ocupado por Rusia.
The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions on Tehran and expressed support for protesters, as the Iranian government aids Russia in the Ukraine war and continues nuclear enrichment.
An air-launched AGM-88B missile, built to destroy enemy radars, apparently missed its target and hit an apartment building in Kramatorsk in September.
Outages struck Kyiv and the surrounding region, as well as Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa and Kharkiv. Half of Moldova, whose grid is tied to Ukraine’s, also lost power.
Moscow takes children caught in war and then puts them up for adoption.
The comparison to Stalin’s decision to let millions in Ukraine starve represents one of the pope’s strongest condemnations yet of the Russian invasion.
A barrage of Russian missiles causes power outages as temperatures drop.
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The effort to negotiate a cap on the price of Russian oil is expected to resume, but when and where is not clear.
A new shipment of $400 million in matériel underscores Ukraine’s battlefield priorities: shooting down waves of Russian missiles while continuing to push back Moscow’s ground forces.
An exhibition in Spain is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian modernist art abroad. It was a long road from Kyiv to Madrid.
The European Union’s only directly elected institution called on the bloc to “further isolate Russia internationally.”
Gary Lineker, a former England player and prominent TV presenter, said the broadcaster made a “mistake” that it would learn from in Qatar.
The owner of the house is Arkady Volozh, the founder of the Russian tech colossus Yandex, who stepped aside after coming under E.U. sanctions.
The owner is Arkady Volozh, the founder of the Russian tech colossus Yandex, who stepped aside after coming under E.U. sanctions.
“Grief fills our hearts,” a regional official said.
Video from the scene shows the aftermath of a Russian missile hitting a hospital’s maternity ward in Vilniansk, in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian authorities said.
NATO is determined to help Ukraine battle Russia, but wants no direct part of the war. A new promise of air defense weapons for Poland may make that more complicated.
The NATO secretary general and Polish officials said the explosion was most likely caused by a Ukrainian air-defense missile that was fending off a Russian attack and went off course.
The security services said they searched for spies and weapons at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv. Dozens of priests have been arrested since the war began on charges of aiding Russia.
For the first time, people in nonparticipating countries will be allowed to vote for their favorite songs. The contest announced changes after it found “voting irregularities” in the 2022 competition.
Investigators in Kyiv found that explosive drones and other guided munitions provided to Russia are built mostly with parts from the United States, including many made since 2020.
The leaders of the central branch of the Orthodox church in Ukraine made a formal break with the hierarchy in Moscow in April.
E.U. diplomats aim to agree on a price this week, clearing the way to enforce the measure before a Dec. 5 deadline.
“Risks remain tilted to the downside,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said, predicting economies will grow only 2.2 percent next year.
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Ukraine is on the offensive along most of the 600-mile front line, and the Russians are in a defensive crouch. But about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory is still occupied by Russia.
In hindsight, protests that began nine years ago and toppled a Ukrainian president were a pivot point in efforts by Vladimir V. Putin to exert Russian control over Ukraine.
Footage suggests that a group of Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian troops was killed at close range.
Russian attacks have left millions across Ukraine without electricity. Our reporter went out in Kyiv to see how the city is preparing for a dark holiay.
While there were no immediate safety concerns, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said the scope of the damage “demonstrates the sheer intensity of the attacks on one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants.”
Ukrainian units plying the Dnipro River venture behind enemy lines under the cover of darkness, carrying out reconnaissance and sabotage.
The country isn’t doomed to repeat the past.
The government is making plans to evacuate residents who want to leave from Kherson and Mykolaiv, where fighting has badly damaged the infrastructure.
Videos circulating online and reported on by Russian state media have raised questions about whether Ukrainian soldiers committed a war crime.
Videos circulating online and reported on by Russian state media have raised questions about whether Ukrainian soldiers committed a war crime.
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency called the strikes “extremely disturbing.”
Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said that the true numbers were likely to be far higher.
Fully 61,000 square miles could be littered with land mines and other explosives left by retreating Russian forces, while half the electric grid has been destroyed.
In Yahidne, a village in northern Ukraine, a basement became a virtual prison for hundreds of residents for four weeks. Months later, that horror lingers.
His career came to an abrupt end in February, when Russian forces invaded his country and he became a soldier.
A train, carrying 200 passengers, made the 11-hour journey for the first time since Ukraine retook the city, a senior official said.
The State Department says Russia refuses to negotiate seriously to free the basketball star Brittney Griner, who was sent to a penal colony with a nine-year sentence on a cannabis charge.
A slow grind on the battlefield appears likely in the coming months.
Dmytro Tishyn, who left his hometown with only a backpack and his father’s bassoon, will be playing with the New York Youth Symphony on Sunday.
The U.S. benchmark oil price fell to about $80 a barrel on Friday, and gasoline prices in some states are now close to $3 a gallon.
Russia reiterated its openness to a prisoner exchange with the United States involving the notorious convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Russia reiterated its openness to a prisoner exchange with the United States involving the notorious convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout. The State Department says Russia refuses to negotiate in good faith.
Western and Ukrainian officials have said Moscow’s stockpile of missiles was dwindling. But the assaults this week raise questions about that.
Los ucranianos se han enfrentado a bombardeos, torturas y abusos sin ceder ante Rusia. ¿Estados Unidos y Europa mostrarán la misma resistencia?
Los ucranianos se han enfrentado a bombardeos, torturas y abusos sin ceder ante Rusia. ¿Estados Unidos y Europa mostrarán la misma resistencia?
Anton Filatov, a Ukrainian film critic, was pulled into a theater he never expected to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes of the scene in the trenches instead of what’s onscreen.
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The victim’s families drew some solace from the verdict, which placed responsibility for the tragedy squarely with Moscow, but the men found guilty may never be arrested.
The Russian opposition leader has been jailed since March 2021 after surviving an assassination attempt that American intelligence agencies blamed on Russian security agents.
The verdict offers a bare measure of justice for the 298 people killed in the downing of the jet, but it may set an example for possible prosecutions of Russian crimes during the current war.
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency called the effect of the strikes on the energy grid “very concerning.”
The economy is in tatters.
The attack severed a crucial Russian supply line and triggered a month of Russian airstrikes. Experts reconstructed how Ukraine pulled it off.
The disaster claimed 298 civilian lives, and came in the midst of a conflict that foreshadowed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This week’s missile assault by Russian forces has hit at least 15 energy facilities — some for the fifth or sixth time — forcing controlled blackouts in every part of the country.
Mr. Filatov, who has reviewed hundreds of films for Ukrainian publications, shares a list in English of 10 films that he says has helped him cope with fighting on the front lines of the war with Russia.
NATO and Polish officials said that it was a Ukrainian missile that crossed the border and killed two people, but that Russia bore the blame.
When missiles landed a few miles from the Ukrainian border, residents say they reignited fears that had largely calmed since the war’s early weeks.
A Ukrainian air defense missile — not a missile fired by Russia — most likely caused an explosion.
The liberation of a Russian-held city was joyous. The revelations about what happened during occupation are anything but.
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The hasty and likely inaccurate reactions from some countries to the apparent explosion of a missile was worrisome, but so is Russia’s nuclear temptation in Ukraine.
Both Russia and Ukraine have depended on the S-300 systems, which are built by Russia, as protection against incoming air assaults during the ongoing war.
The provisions are core parts of the NATO charter, but are not often invoked.
Poland’s president said that a Ukrainian air defense missile had most likely caused a deadly blast there on Tuesday.
The meeting did not result in the customary joint communiqué, and the “leaders’ declaration” issued instead noted “different assessments” of the war in Ukraine.
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Poland said a Russian-made missile was involved. Russia has denied involvement.
President Biden expressed sympathy for the two people who died in an explosion near Poland’s border with Ukraine but suggested that the missile that detonated there had probably not been fired from Russia.
Timothy Morales, a teacher, was trapped in the southern Ukrainian city during the occupation. To evade Russian troops, he rarely ventured out, switched apartments and pretended to be Irish.
Chilled gas from the United States has helped replace fuel from Russia, upending European energy markets.
The explosion in a Polish village across the border from Ukraine occurred as Russia bombarded Ukrainian cities with about 100 missiles.
The request comes as lawmakers are beginning to work out the details of a sprawling spending package that must become law before Dec. 16 to avoid a government shutdown.
Plus a deadly explosion in Poland and a record-breaking global population estimate.
Residents told of a frantic escape: “We were just running around, no idea what to do,” one said.
China and the United States showed how global summits are an arena for great powers to compete, with implications for the war in Ukraine and Asia’s future.
Kyiv’s mayor said that at least one person was killed after Russia struck the capital as part of a broad aerial attack targeting several cities across Ukraine.
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On Monday night, the first train from Kyiv departed for the Black Sea city, which had been pummeled for months by Russian attacks.
The meeting between the leaders of China and Australia during the Group of 20 summit was another sign that Beijing is looking more broadly to ease diplomatic rifts with Western countries.
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Poland took in millions of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. But a vocal minority is trying to stoke tensions as Russian attacks threaten to prompt a new surge.
France’s state-backed nuclear operator is scrambling to overcome a monthslong crisis to get as many reactors as possible restarted before winter sets in.
An upbeat photo in China’s main newspaper and comments by the foreign minister suggested that Beijing believes its relationship with Washington could improve.
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Though the battle for Ukraine remains largely a grinding artillery war, new advances in technology and training there are being closely monitored for the ways they are starting to shape combat.
Though the battle for Ukraine remains largely a grinding artillery war, new advances in technology and training there are being closely monitored for the ways they are starting to shape combat.
World leaders gathering in Indonesia said their nations faced challenges from conflict and economic headwinds.
Just days after the southern city of Kherson was liberated after eight months of Russian occupation, accounts of beatings, torture and disappearances are emerging.
William Burns’s talks with Russia’s foreign intelligence chief are the most senior in-person meetings since the start of the war in Ukraine.
The C.I.A. director met with his Russian counterpart at a pivotal moment in the war.
Prosecutors had seized Rudolph Giuliani’s electronic devices but did not uncover sufficient evidence to charge him with a crime.
The former Gazprom Germania, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned gas monopoly, is deemed essential to Germany’s energy security.
The National Security Council said William J. Burns’s meeting was not in any way to negotiate or to discuss any settlement of the war in Ukraine.
Sergei Lavrov is representing Russia at the G20 meeting in place of President Vladimir V. Putin, who decided not to attend.
Russia has suffered serious losses recently.
In Kherson, national songs were banned, speaking Ukrainian could lead to arrest, and students were told they were Russian. Cue the resistance.
Xi Jinping and President Biden will meet today, ahead of the G20 summit, and after Biden’s appearance at ASEAN.
Even Vladimir Putin and the Russian government were targets, but there was no evidence that the volume of blame would be a real liability.
Some military analysts said that the recapture of Kherson might enable Ukraine to shift forces as well as artillery east to Donetsk.
Kim Jong-un has launched a record number of missiles this year, hoping to leverage the tension between the United States and China, and to exploit hostilities toward Moscow.
Ukrainian forces encountered a city without heat, water, electricity or cellphone service, with Russian artillery digging in just miles away.
The anonymous artist appeared to confirm his latest creation in Borodyanka, a town that was among the first to be hit by Russian airstrikes.
The president traveled to Cambodia hoping that an in-person appearance would help reinforce his administration’s broad efforts to counter China’s rise and to promote human rights.
Both sides are expected to pause operations. But heavy snows and freezing temperatures could make it difficult for the poorly equipped Russian army to regroup.
Many analysts and diplomats have suggested there could be a pause in major combat, and even peace talks, over the winter, but after pushing the Russians out of Kherson, Ukraine has no desire to stop.
After months of Russian occupation, residents said the moment recalled being liberated from the Nazis in World War II. But there was also fear about further Russian attacks.
Jubilant crowds poured into the streets, greeting Ukrainian soldiers and waving flags. But officials said the city was not out of danger, warning of potential Russian reprisals.
Ukrainians are celebrating, but the war is far from over.