Dmitri N. Kozak’s departure is one of the few known splinters in President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle since the start of his invasion of Ukraine.
Cheaper than advanced air defenses and more versatile than low-tech options, lasers have become a popular choice for nations worried about drone attacks.
Russia’s use of drone swarms in the Ukraine war has other countries worried about their own air defenses. Lara Jakes, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, explains how some are looking at laser weapons technology to counter the drone threat.
Denmark says Russia is a threat. Russia calls the Danish plans “pure madness.”
The call coincided with a visit by U.S. trade officials to the country, which just weeks ago was hit with a 50 percent tariff on all imports to the United States.
The investment will ease fears in Kyiv that Washington is pulling back from Ukraine’s war effort. It also underscores the mercantile nature of the U.S.-Ukrainian alliance under President Trump.
Richard Nelson returns to the Public Theater with “When the Hurlyburly’s Done,” which he presented last winter in Kyiv. Here, he reflects on the experience with excerpts from his diary.
Ukrainian and European officials, analysts and entrepreneurs keep asking privately, “What’s up with Trump?”
Poland suggested such a zone after a major Russian incursion. But political hesitance and military shortcomings pose clear obstacles.
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.
Pope Leo XIV said that while popes can be advocates for peace, it was less “realistic” for them to serve as mediators.
Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.
The brief incursion occurred days after Poland reported Russian drones in its territory. Romania said the drone did not fly over populated areas.
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.”
Increased air patrols, air defense systems and other protections will be mobilized over Eastern Europe.
The prince arrived in Kyiv on his second trip to the country this year. The visit comes after his charity supporting wounded soldiers said it would expand post-conflict rehabilitation.
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.
El Artículo 4 permite a los Estados miembros iniciar un debate formal dentro de la alianza sobre las amenazas a su seguridad. No compromete a la alianza a emprender acciones militares.
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”.
Article 4 allows member states to start a formal discussion within the alliance about threats to their security. It does not commit the alliance to military action.
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 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.
No matamos desde el aire a los sospechosos de ser criminales.
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.
We do not kill those merely suspected of being criminals from the air.
The profile of U.S. volunteers in the Ukrainian military has changed, shifting more toward people without military experience, and those who saw few prospects for them at home.
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.
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.
The Danish Refugee Council said that one of its teams had been affected by a missile attack and that it was investigating.
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.
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.
Rides in his hulking bulletproof Aurus with the Indian and North Korean leaders offered the Russian leader an ideal setting for deepening ties.
The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlights divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.
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.
With Russian attacks ongoing and peace talks stalled, some students in Ukraine are attending classes underground. For some, it is their first in-person learning in more than three years of war.
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.
Ukraine said it had arrested a suspect in the murder of the politician, who had voiced anti-Russian views. The authorities did not explain how the suspect was tied to Moscow.
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.
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.
It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.
A festival known as Summer in Moscow showcases the city’s transformation into an ultramodern metropolis. But the feast can’t last forever.
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.
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.
For three years of war, the country has banned young men from leaving the country once they turn 18, prompting an exodus of teenage boys. Now it is raising that age limit to 23.
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Leaders in Britain and the European Union are promoting the promise of economic benefits from increased military spending, but there is a trade-off.
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.
Durante décadas, las empresas temían estar en el lado equivocado de las sanciones estadounidenses. Eso ya no es siempre así.
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?
For decades, companies feared being on the wrong side of U.S. sanctions. That’s not always true anymore.
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.
The bloodiest war in Europe since World War II has shaped a generation of Ukrainian men. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them. Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a national correspondent, met him after his release from captivity.
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.
The North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, publicly consoled bereaved families, as well as awarding medals to soldiers returning from the force he has sent to aid Russia.
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.
It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine’s leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.
German authorities said a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 had been taken into custody by the Italian police.
Nearly a week after President Trump’s Alaska summit, his suggestions of imminent breakthroughs have not come to pass.
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.
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.
Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What happened?
La gestión de Biden estará en los libros de historia como un interregno entre dos mandatos de Donald Trump, una pausa en medio de un periodo caótico de cambio, para bien o para mal.
Biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns.
In a choice between misfortunes, one is clearly worse.
The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.
Hundreds of millions of voters are electing a European Parliament this weekend. The outcome will help tip the balance of the continent’s struggle between unity and nationalism.
Across Africa and in parts of Asia, disruption to the supply chain for fertilizer is raising food prices and increasing malnutrition.
His four years as the senior military adviser to two presidents spanned an unusually chaotic period.
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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.
The country is a growing target for foreign espionage, the agency said, amid rising tensions over the war in Ukraine and rivalries between Washington and Beijing.
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.
Reasons include a stronger supply of oil and weaker-than-expected demand, energy experts say. Some people are saving hundreds of dollars on fuel.
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.
Adding to crises like the pandemic, recent stress in the banking system is a new threat to world growth, experts at the organization said.
Also, Russia tries to cut off Bakhmut, and countries reach an ocean biodiversity deal.
Also, China’s attempt to erase “zero Covid” and Nigeria’s contested election.
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, another mass shooting in California and New Zealand’s next leader.
Also, China’s uncertain economic recovery.
The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the decisive force in a changing global system.
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.
Ten charts to recap the trends and main events of 2022.
Also, Ukraine peace talks seem far-off.
Also, Ukraine is fighting to retake a city in the Donbas.
¿Se está acabando el mundo tal como lo conocíamos? ¿Lo sabrías, siquiera, antes de que fuera demasiado tarde?
Also, an emerging picture of China’s Covid crisis.
Also, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to lead Israel again and the week in culture.
A big boost for the military, more aid for Ukraine, a preference for the lobster industry over whales and an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act are among the provisions in the 4,155-page bill lawmakers expect to pass this week.