Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s response to a changing America.
The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange.
In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.
For the United States to put its considerable clout behind a German political party whose leaders minimize Nazi crimes is a blunder of historic proportions.
The words of war and the war of words.
Las fuerzas de Moscú están a cinco kilómetros de Dnipropetrovsk, una provincia que no han invadido hasta ahora. Si entran, el avance supondría un golpe moral para Ucrania y complicaría cualquier negociación territorial.
The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands.
President Trump on Friday continued to bash President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and pressure him for mineral rights.
As a senator, Marco Rubio prided himself on challenging tyrants. But as secretary of state, President Trump has tasked him with helping to potentially turn Russia from an enemy into an ally.
The president has moved swiftly to remake Washington. But for business leaders, that volatility has often been hard to navigate.
We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.
Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
Muchos habitantes en Bucha parecían tener problemas para asimilar los comentarios recientes de Trump: ¿Hablaba Trump de manera improvisada? ¿Estaba Estados Unidos realmente del lado de Rusia, un paria en la escena mundial?
The American opposition to a draft of a Group of 7 statement marking the third anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine comes after President Trump blamed Kyiv for starting the war.
European officials were not sure what to make of the secretary of state’s measured assessment of Washington’s apparent pivot toward Moscow.
La mayoría de los republicanos del Congreso han moderado sus críticas o han cedido ante el presidente mientras este ignora lo que una vez fueron los principios básicos de política exterior de su partido.
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed the plot to blow up drone goggles. But it was unclear how much effect the scheme had on Russian forces.
Readers warn that the Trump administration’s defunding of medical research will cost lives. Also: President Trump’s remarks about Ukraine.
European officials knew the president’s win would threaten the fundamental precepts of the post-World War II order. But the speed at which it is unraveling has created a crisis of enormous proportions.
En el inicio de las conversaciones de paz en Arabia Saudita, el presidente Trump dejó claro que los días de aislar a Rusia han terminado y sugirió que Ucrania tenía la culpa de haber sido invadida.
President Trump’s description of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as a “Dictator without Elections” echoes the Kremlin’s messaging.
The kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was once shunned in diplomatic circles. Now he is playing an important role in negotiations over Gaza and Ukraine.
Keith Kellogg and President Volodymyr Zelensky were expected to discuss possible paths to ending the war and ways to defuse tensions between Washington and Kyiv.
We explain what President Trump may do with them.
Plus, please don’t ski down the volcano.
Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow.
Riyadh is hosting U.S., Russian and Arab officials for high-stakes talks on Ukraine and Gaza, more proof of its regional clout and warm relations with President Trump.
The president wants to create a revolution abroad. This Opinion columnist would love to see a plan.
Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United States that is more aligned with Russia.
As he seeks to negotiate a peace deal with Moscow, President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.
Some of the most vocal critics of Vladimir V. Putin and proponents of the United States’ role as a global defender of democracy have acquiesced to Mr. Trump on Russia.
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.
This is a humiliating month to be an American.
President Trump’s claim that Ukraine was responsible for its war with Russia has left many Ukrainians disillusioned.
Readers discuss developments involving the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Europe. Also: The Republican attack on higher education; the Eric Adams case.
A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.
El presidente ucraniano, Volodímir Zelenski, declaró el miércoles que el presidente Trump, quien sugirió que Ucrania empezó la guerra, está “viviendo en un espacio de desinformación”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to President Trump’s comments on the war. Among other things, Mr. Trump had suggested that Ukraine had started the war, and he appeared to embrace what has been a Russian demand that Ukraine hold p...
Investors seem open to the prospect of peace talks, but Western companies face a dilemma just three years after many retreated from the country.
Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.
The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.
President Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections” after the Ukrainian president said Mr. Trump was in a “web of disinformation.”
Many people in Russia expressed relief that an end to the conflict in Ukraine seemed nearer and that the hardships of war, and the shunning of their country by much of the world, may soon end.
Ante la evidente agresividad del gobierno de Trump, los dirigentes europeos se preparan para lo que se perfila como una era en la que cada país parece ir por su cuenta.
The Trump administration has many worried that Washington is no longer a trusted ally.
Many of President Trump’s media allies were quick to celebrate this week’s negotiations, a contrast to the deep unease expressed by the foreign policy establishment.
As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.
Left out of a meeting between American and Saudi officials, the Ukrainian leader also canceled a trip to Riyadh.
Funcionarios de ambos países se reúnen en Arabia Saudita para hablar del fin de la guerra en Ucrania y el restablecimiento de las relaciones entre ambos países.
The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book.
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.
Faced with undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europeans are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.
¿Cómo serían las conversaciones? ¿Quién participaría? ¿Qué aspecto podría tener un acuerdo? He aquí nuestra guía sobre las posibles conversaciones de paz en Ucrania.
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties were on the table.
The release of Kalob Byers Wayne, who was arrested on drug charges on Feb. 7, came on the eve of talks about the war in Ukraine.
Por qué el nuevo gobierno debilitará inexorablemente la seguridad económica del país.
La reunión formaba parte de una oleada de diplomacia que se espera se centre en Ucrania esta semana, mientras los funcionarios de Trump se preparan para iniciar conversaciones con Rusia por su cuenta.
President Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Russia could keep at least some of the Ukrainian territory it had captured. Andrew Kramer, the New York Times bureau chief in Kyiv, explains how this would le...
The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own.
President Trump’s embrace of Russia is a major setback for the relationship between Europe and the U.S.
Marco Rubio’s visit to Riyadh, his first as secretary of state, came amid uncertainty about the future of Gaza and Ukraine and criticism of unilateral U.S. moves over the wars in both places.
Balancing Ukraine’s sovereignty with Russia’s demand for its own “security guarantees” promises to be the hardest part of any negotiation. But experts see possible compromises.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said for the first time on Sunday that he was “ready and willing” to deploy troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told NBC News that he’d warned President Trump that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is a “liar.”
The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.
European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.
The Trump team’s vacillations may not just cost Ukraine its independence; it could set the stage for a cataclysm.
President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.
Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.
A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as part of his campaign against organizations he says are funded from abroad.
Talks involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and two other senior Trump officials would be the first between American and Russian delegations since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.
En la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich, Olaf Scholz acusó al vicepresidente de EE. UU. de intervenir de forma inaceptable en las próximas elecciones alemanas.
It was a crash course in geopolitical realities as the new defense secretary stepped onto the world stage.
Trump and Musk are destroying the magic of America.
After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.
Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
His comments came on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where anxious European officials had hoped to learn more about U.S. plans to broker peace talks.
After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Diplomats at the Munich Security Conference were uttering “appeasement,” with all its historical resonance, to describe the Trump administration’s approach to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the defense secretary made a ‘rookie mistake.’
Si el acuerdo esbozado por los funcionarios estadounidenses sale adelante, muchas personas que han perdido sus hogares en la guerra tendrán pocas posibilidades de regresar.
His comments shocked attendees at the Munich Security Conference and seemed to target efforts to sideline the hard-right party the Alternative for Germany.
We explore the relationship between the Trump administration and Europe.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.
Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s arm or leg and then saying, ‘Let it be as it is.’”
La alianza de defensa mutua ha sido fundamental en la guerra de Ucrania contra Rusia, pero el futuro es incierto con el presidente Trump de nuevo en el cargo.
Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal that it was too early to talk about specific territorial or security arrangements.
Cellphone messages provide a cherished link for Ukrainians whose partners are away fighting, but when the answers dry up, the last words can become poignant symbols of loss.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.
President Trump has made it clear that he is pushing for an end to the war in Ukraine. The move has left Europe worried that it, and Ukraine, could be left out as he negotiates with Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin.
The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
Ukraine’s government wants to restore the country’s frontier to where it was before Russia launched its first invasion more than a decade ago. The U.S. defense secretary said that was “unrealistic.”
Trump’s recent moves, including a conversation with Putin and a demand for Ukrainian mineral rights, are worrisome signs for Zelensky.
The call has raised concerns among some European leaders that Ukraine could effectively be sidelined in any peace negotiations.
Plus, the hidden cost of a Valentine’s bouquet.
Vladimir Putin’s call with President Trump reinforced the Russian leader’s view that Moscow and Washington should decide the fate of Ukraine — and other weighty matters.
El Times entrevistó a soldados rusos que dijeron que se enfrentan a una lucha brutal para desalojar a las decididas fuerzas ucranianas de una franja de territorio ruso. Los civiles atrapados temen una catástrofe.
El embajador de Rusia en Corea del Norte dijo que la rehabilitación de soldados rusos heridos es “uno de los claros ejemplos de nuestros lazos fraternales”.
El presidente de Estados Unidos dijo que había tenido una “larga y muy productiva” llamada con el mandatario ruso. También afirmó que habló con el presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski.
It turns out it is very difficult to vote down a president’s choice for a top post.
Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s adversaries.
Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.
In his first trip abroad, the new U.S. defense secretary told allies, including NATO officials, that a durable peace could only come “with a realistic assessment of the battlefield.”
Russia’s ambassador to North Korea said that its Asian ally is also hosting Russian children orphaned by its war against Ukraine, as the two nations deepen ties.
The visit by Scott Bessent was the first by a Trump official since the president’s return to office and came amid uncertainty about the future of U.S. support for Ukraine.
President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.
The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians fear catastrophe.
Mr. Fogel, who had lived and taught in many countries, including Russia for nine years, spent 3 ½ years in Russian custody for having cannabis for medical use, and is in poor health.
Opponents of the project say it is costly, will take far too long to strengthen Ukraine’s battered power supply and opens the door to corruption.
Deterring Russia from re-invading Ukraine, once this war ends, could require 150,000 troops and American help with air cover, intelligence and missile defense, experts say.
If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy voters have soured on.
Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week.
Students have been forced to attend classes underground or online, especially in regions near the front line. Experts say that Ukrainian children are falling behind as a result, academically and socially.
The Ukrainian authorities are rounding up recruits. Relatives huddle at a center on the edge of Kyiv for a chance to see loved ones before they’re shipped to war.
The biggest challenge for any peacetime military is preparing for the next war.
A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious freedom of Christians who don’t follow the Russian Orthodox Church.
Russia said that discussions with Washington were underway regarding potential peace talks to end the war nearly three years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
The move cast uncertainty on the leadership role of the United States in the global body. The president also withdrew from the U.N.’s Human Rights Council and stopped funding UNRWA.
The Russian singer, shunned over her past support of Vladimir V. Putin, made her first American appearance since 2019 at a gala for Palm Beach Opera.
The Kyiv Symphony’s players are building new lives as refugees in a German town. But they face shifting attitudes about migrants and an unending war.
The country should not be just a buyer of weapons but also a supplier, thanks to its spirit of innovation.
Ukraine has already emphasized that by supporting its war effort, the U.S. could get access to the country’s wealth of critical minerals like lithium and uranium.
Ukrainian defense companies say they cannot sign new contracts or receive payment — potentially jeopardizing future supplies to already struggling troops.
Armen Sarkisyan, the founder of a separatist battalion fighting in eastern Ukraine, died after an explosion in an apartment complex, according to reports citing the Russian authorities.
To wean itself off Russian natural gas, Europe has found new sources of energy, including imports from the United States. But high costs are straining the economy.
European leaders gathered Monday to plot a rough path forward on defense. Wavering support from President Trump is driving the debate.
At least 14 people were killed in Poltava, Ukrainian officials said, blaming Russia. Four died in Sudzha, a Russian town held by Ukraine, in a strike each country blamed on the other.
Corea del Norte envió sus mejores soldados para ayudar a Rusia en su guerra contra Ucrania. Pero tras sufrir graves pérdidas durante meses, han sido retiradas de la línea del frente.
Before its members went into exile, Ic3peak was one of the most notorious musical acts in Russia. Now, it’s pivoting to a more gentle sound.
North Korea sent its best troops to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine. But after months of suffering severe losses, they have been taken off the front line.
The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who has had a tense relationship with President Volodymyr Zelensky, accused him of trying to usurp the powers of elected officials in the capital.
El avance de Rusia subraya la eficacia de utilizar su abrumador número de tropas para atacar sin descanso, obligando a a las fuerzas ucranianas a retroceder.
Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic on Velyka Novosilka that has enabled their recent capture of town after town in eastern Ukraine.
The dismissal of government inspectors general will make it difficult to root out waste and corruption.
The Trump administration’s orders have sent a chill through humanitarian organizations in Ukraine, which depend heavily on such assistance.
Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things different this time.
Todo parece indicar que ambos líderes planean examinar a fondo la relación entre Moscú y Washington. Esto podría incluir la reanudación de las conversaciones sobre armamento nuclear.
Ukraine’s defense minister fired the head of a state agency that acquired over $7 billion in armaments last year, citing “unsatisfactory” results. But, the official vowed to remain.
President Trump jabs at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with flattery. But there are notable signals in their jousting, including a revived discussion about nuclear arms control.
Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.