Ukraine’s interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, in the town of Borodianka after Ukrainian forces retook it last year.Credit…Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images The helicopter crash that killed top Ukrainian officials on Wednesday created a void atop a cabinet ministry critical to the war just as Kyiv prepares for a possible Russian offensive in the spring […]
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Russia Says It Has Taken Soledar as Ukraine Denies the Claim: Live Updates
A Ukrenergo employee stands at a high-voltage electrical substation damaged by a Russian missile in central Ukraine in October.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times As repair crews race to restore power supplies after crippling Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, the Ukrainian government has also been working around the clock to come up with creative […]
Russia-Ukraine War: U.N. Inspectors Find No Evidence for Russian ‘Dirty Bomb’ Claim
Ukrainian soldiers returning to a village to spend the night last week before heading to the front line in the Kherson region. Ukrainian officials have said they expect a brutal battle for the city of Kherson.Credit…Ivor Prickett for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — On the day after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, […]
Putin Repeats Unsupported ‘Dirty Bomb’ Claim, Fueling Fears of Escalation
The Russian leader said, without offering evidence, that Ukraine was planning to detonate a bomb designed to spread radioactive material. Washington warned that Moscow could be trying to create a pretext for its own attack.