Evidence is mounting that Moscow has failed to make much progress in the Donbas of eastern Ukraine, despite months of fighting in the industrial and agricultural region close to the Russian border. Russia’s military bloggers and like-minded activists have in recent weeks lamented the lack of progress from the winter campaign. Russia has not secured […]
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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, center, at Parliament in Ankara on Wednesday.Credit…Adem Altan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ISTANBUL — Since Finland announced its intention to join NATO last year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the largest boulders obstructing its path was the will of one man: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
The Russian authorities said on Thursday that they had detained an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal and accused him of espionage, marking a new escalation in Moscow’s tensions with the United States and with foreign media organizations since the start of its invasion of Ukraine. The journalist, Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent based in […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is calling for the creation of a joint tribunal in which Ukraine and international allies would try Russian leaders for crimes of aggression, but some human rights lawyers worry the plan has a fatal flaw: It might shield President Vladimir V. Putin from prosecution. Beth Van Schaack, the State Department’s […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — When the shelling starts, the people who have remained in this town in eastern Ukraine hardly flinch. In truth, the shelling barely stops. Russian efforts to capture Avdiivka began over a year ago and in recent weeks have escalated. On Monday, as a Ukrainian police evacuation team went from basement to basement […]
Israel Judicial Overhaul: Live Updates
As political protests over efforts by the far-right coalition to assert greater control over the Supreme Court have roiled Israel for months, bringing hundreds of thousands into the streets, the country’s Palestinian citizens have largely stayed on the sidelines. That appears to be largely because of a widespread feeling among Palestinians that demonstrations have ignored […]
Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Xi and Putin Meet in Moscow
The Biden administration vowed last month to crack down on companies that sell critical technologies to Russia as part of its efforts to curtail the country’s war against Ukraine. But the continued flow of Chinese drones to the country explains why that will be hard. While drone sales have slowed, American policies put in place […]
Latest Xi-Putin Meeting News: Ukraine-Russia Live Updates
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign and defense ministers agreed on Monday to spend up to 2 billion euros, or $2.14 billion, to supply Ukraine with badly needed artillery shells, replenish their own national stocks and ramp up Europe’s ammunition production. As is typical for the bloc and its 27 member states, the details of the […]
Poland Says It Is Sending MIG Fighter Jets to Ukraine: Live Updates
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had a rare phone call with his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a Russian warplane and an American spy drone, as senior Pentagon leaders tried to move swiftly to prevent the incident from increasing tensions between the two superpowers. Mr. Austin said he […]
Pension Vote Looms in France After Protests: Live Updates
France’s Senate approved President Emmanuel Macron’s widely unpopular plans to raise the retirement age by two years on Thursday, setting the stage for a decisive, if far more unpredictable, vote in the National Assembly, the lower house, later in the day. After waves of protests and rolling strikes that disrupted public transportation and left garbage […]