The Primorsky beach in Yalta, Crimea, in 2017.Credit…Denis Sinyakov for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — The Crimean Peninsula dangles off Ukraine’s southern coast like a diamond, blessed with a temperate climate, sandy beaches, lush wheat fields and orchards stuffed with cherries and peaches. It is also a critical staging ground for Russia’s invasion […]
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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Despite recent pronouncements by Ukraine’s leadership about the military’s success along the Kherson front, troops have barely moved for weeks. Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — In their summer campaign to drive Russian troops from the southern region of Kherson, Ukraine’s forces have decimated Russian command centers and ammunition depots, […]
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, along the banks of the Dnipro River, is occupied by Russian forces.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Artillery fire resumed on Sunday from the direction of a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with shells streaking into a town from which the Ukrainian army has been […]
Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
An artillery unit from Ukraine’s 58th near the town of Bakhmut in the Donbas region on Wednesday.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Despite suffering grievous losses over nearly six months of war, Russia still holds a distinct advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fight featuring brutal artillery battles. So the Ukrainian […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Video Satellite images of the Saki air base, on Crimea’s western Black Sea coast, taken before the explosions on Tuesday and afterward, on Wednesday.CreditCredit…Planet Labs With satellite images showing at least eight wrecked warplanes after explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said late Wednesday that Moscow’s mounting losses […]
Kenya’s Presidential Election: Live Updates
Voting in Nairobi on Tuesday.Credit…Luis Tato/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images NAIROBI, Kenya — One is the self-declared champion of the “hustler nation.” The other is a veteran leftist making his fifth run for high office. Both are products of Kenya’s calcified, corruption-ridden political system, yet claim they can transform it — if elected president. The […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Residents lining up at a water distribution point in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, last month.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The embattled city of Mykolaiv emerged on Monday from a 54-hour lockdown during which officers went door to door in search of collaborators who officials say are responsible for helping Russian forces identify […]
Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Live War Updates
A soldier from the Ukrainian Army’s 93rd Brigade peering out from inside a bunker along the front line near the Ukrainian town of Barvinkove.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times SLOVIANSK, Ukraine — At one point on the front line, Ukrainian soldiers advanced by creeping forward on their bellies 50 yards at a time, digging […]
Live Updates: Ukraine and Russia Trade Blame After Rockets Hit Near Power Plant
Russia has held the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since March.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of firing rockets that landed on the grounds of a nuclear power plant that Russia has seized in the south of the country, further raising the risk of an accident at a complex where the United Nations’ nuclear […]
Israel-Palestinian Conflict Live Updates: Gaza Militants Fire Rockets at Jerusalem
About 14,000 Palestinian laborers from Gaza have received permits to enter Israel every day for work this year, a shift in Israeli policy toward Gaza.Credit…Oded Balilty/Associated Press Hamas has largely remained on the sidelines in the fighting in Gaza on Saturday, raising the chances that the current round of cross-border violence could be contained in […]