President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.Credit…Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday that a gathering of European leaders in Moldova showed Europe’s unity in supporting Ukraine and in standing up to Russian aggression, but he reiterated France’s position that full-fledged […]
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Tuesday.Credit…Tchandrou Nitanga/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has arrived in Cape Town amid a diplomatic storm over whether South Africa will honor an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Putin is expected […]
Russian Officials Accuse West of Tacit Support for Moscow Drone Attack: Live Updates
Tuesday’s drone strike on Moscow further demonstrated the spread of the war in Ukraine to the Russian capital, putting a spotlight on the city’s air defenses and the Kremlin’s attempts to adapt to a new kind of conflict. Since the 1980s, Moscow has been ringed by a complex air defense system known as Amur, which […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — Frightened pedestrians hurried to get off the streets of Ukraine’s capital and into underground shelters on Monday morning as Russian forces launched a rare daytime missile attack on Kyiv. Air-raid alarms sounded shortly after 11 a.m. local time, sending parents racing to get their children to safety and hospital workers to take […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Wins Re-Election After Presidential Runoff: Live Results
In December 2002 at the White House, President George W. Bush greeted an up-and-coming politician from Turkey whose newly formed party had just won a surprising majority in Parliament. “Welcome to the home of one of your country’s best friends and allies,” Mr. Bush told the politician, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “You are a strategic ally […]
Deadly Missile Strike Hits Medical Clinic in Ukraine: Live Updates
A flooded house in Kryvyi Rih last September after Russian forces fired missiles at a dam near the city blowing up one of two floodgates.Credit…Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian forces have blown up the dam on a river in eastern Ukraine, sending water levels rising in what Ukraine’s military […]
Ukraine Live Updates: Wagner’s Withdrawal From Bakhmut Would Present Test to Russian Army
As Russia vowed to respond “extremely harshly” to a rare, two-day border incursion by pro-Ukrainian fighters, the leader of Russia’s largest mercenary force warned that it faced further setbacks unless its ruling elite took drastic, and likely unpopular, measures to win the war. “The most likely scenario for us in a special operation would not […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
As attacks by Ukrainian-aligned insurgents in Russian territory stretched into a third day on Wednesday, concerns were rising in Russia that the rare border incursion could create new battlefield problems — and it has increased calls for the military to expend more resources defending against such assaults. A group composed of anti-Kremlin Russian fighters, the […]
Russia Blames ‘Ukrainian Militants’ for Assault Across Belgorod Region: Live Updates
MOSCOW — Meeting behind closed doors, a Moscow court on Tuesday extended the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal correspondent accused of espionage, for more than three months, until Aug. 30. The refusal of bail and the extension of Mr. Gershkovich’s detention were widely expected, although Russia has presented no evidence to back […]
Ukraine Thwarts Russian Missile Attack on Kyiv: Live Updates
German and Danish military personnel trained Ukrainians crews on how to operate and maintain Leopard tanks, in Kleitz, Germany, this month.Credit…Sean Gallup/Getty Images The new long-range missiles, attack drones and tanks and other armored vehicles that President Volodymyr Zelensky has secured from allies in recent days will fulfill many, but not all, of the demands […]