This is one in an occasional series of dispatches about life amid the war in Ukraine. KYIV, Ukraine — Alice Biletska knew that it would be challenging to film in Ukraine, where one is always under the threat of missile or drone strikes, but when she was deciding how to tell the story of a […]
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U.S. to End Title 42 Policy Blocking Migrants: Live Updates
The day before Title 42 was scheduled to end, hundreds of migrants gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas. Some of them, unable to wait any longer, cut a hole through a fence and made it to onto U.S. soil, before uniformed agents resealed the barricade. The majority retreated and bided […]
Ukraine Claims Gains Near Bakhmut: Live News Updates
President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia called Mr. Putin’s decision “unacceptable” and a “provocation.”Credit…Tomasz Wiktor/EPA, via Shutterstock TBILISI, Georgia — President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday ordered the restoration of direct flights from Russia to the mountainous former Soviet republic of Georgia starting May 15 and abolished visa requirements for Georgian nationals, in the latest sign […]
Putin Appears at Victory Day Parade Hours After Russia Aims Missiles at Ukraine: Live Updates
The war in Ukraine has prompted officials across Russia to scale back annual celebrations of Victory Day, the country’s most important national holiday, with more than 20 cities forgoing military parades and organizers calling off a popular nationwide march to honor veterans. Security concerns were most often cited for the rash of cancellations of Tuesday’s […]
Coronation Live: King Charles III Heads to Westminster Abbey
The approximately 2,300 people who have been invited to attend the coronation ceremony for King Charles III of Britain on Saturday in London includes a mix of new faces, old lineages, world leaders, pop icons and a dash of controversy. Among those to receive the invitation — a hand-painted card by an heraldic artist, reproduced […]
Russian Wagner Leader Threatens to Pull Out of Bakhmut: Ukraine War Live News
The Kremlin is trying to muster the usual patriotic fervor that grips the country in the days before the May 9 Victory Day parade, but unease with Russia’s stumbling war in Ukraine keeps bursting forth. The latest manifestation came from Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, who used what he said were […]
Russia Claims Ukrainian Drones Targeted Putin: Live Updates
Aging European weapons factories could receive a boost of 500 million euros ($551 million) under a new plan announced by the European Union on Wednesday that would upgrade and expand production and, potentially, speed more ammunition to Ukraine. The proposal largely seeks to ramp up weapons production for European militaries for years to come. But […]
Russia Tightens Restrictions in Occupied Regions of Ukraine: Live News
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has been detained in Russia for more than a month on charges of espionage that the U.S. rejects.Credit…Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, warned on Tuesday that “when the free press erodes, democratic erosion almost always follows.” He spoke at a United […]
Russian Missile Strikes on Ukraine Kill at Least 22: Live Updates
UMAN, Ukraine — Inna stood staring at what was left of her home on Friday, the building’s facade blown nearly completely off. Maybe her children, 17-year-old Kyrylo and 11-year-old Sophia, had been carried away by the blast, she kept repeating into the wind. Maybe they would be found alive. Her husband, Dmytro, had raced to […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
In Kyiv, people took a class in kozachky, the oldest Ukrainian traditional style of dance, and danced to traditional music performed by US Orchestra at an outdoor cafe.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — On a recent Wednesday evening, in a third-floor dance studio, half a dozen 20-somethings spun and stomped to […]