Ukrainian soldiers from the 28th Brigade fired toward Russian positions in Bakhmut from Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on Tuesday.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Ukraine’s top military commander said on Tuesday that blocking Russian advances in the ruined city of Bakhmut remained of “paramount strategic importance” and vowed that the Ukrainian military would hold the line there […]
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Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
GENEVA — The United Nations continued on Tuesday to try to broker a deal that would allow Ukraine to keep exporting its grain past Russian naval vessels blockading the Black Sea, after Moscow said it would extend the agreement only for 60 days, rather than the 120 sought by Kyiv. The Black Sea Grain Initiative […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
A police officer near a residential building destroyed during a Russian attack last week in Avdiivka, in Ukraine’s Donbas region.Credit…Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press Russian forces have stepped up their shelling of Avdiivka, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, according to Ukrainian officials, as Moscow pursues its broader offensive to seize more land in the east. […]
Russian Missile and Drone Attacks on Ukraine Kill at Least 9: Live Updates
March 8, 2023, 3:54 p.m. ET March 8, 2023, 3:54 p.m. ET Leaders of American intelligence agencies quoted from the annual threat assessment at a Senate committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday.Credit…Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times American intelligence officials warned senators on Wednesday about the dangers posed to U.S. security by strengthening ties between China […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — It was Christmas Day, and four fighters from a volunteer Ukrainian special forces team had slipped over the border into Russian territory. They were on a mission to scout enemy positions, place mines to blow up Russian military equipment and engage in sabotage operations to undermine Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The four […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian officials said they have begun a war crimes investigation into a video that emerged of what they said was the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russian soldiers. Slightly hunched and with a cigarette dangling from his lip, the Ukrainian soldier in the video looks tired and dirty. He is not holding […]
Ukraine Generals Say They Want to Keep Fighting for Bakhmut: Live Updates
Sergei K. Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, made a rare visit to occupied Ukrainian territory amid the lackluster performance of Russia’s renewed military offensive and growing tensions with the Wagner mercenary group, a prominent paramilitary ally. Mr. Shoigu toured the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to videos and statements released by the Russian […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
President Biden and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany meeting during a Group of 7 session in Germany in June.Credit…Kenny Holston for The New York Times There will be no state dinners, no press entourage and little fanfare. On a two-day visit to Washington to see President Biden, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, wants to get straight […]
Blinken and Lavrov Meet at G20 Summit: Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates
A Russian partisan group with ties to the Ukrainian military claimed on Thursday that it had briefly taken control of a small border village, in what would represent a rare known example of saboteurs crossing into Russia to carry out an operation. President Vladimir V. Putin canceled a scheduled trip to the Caucasus region to […]
Nigeria Presidential Election Live Updates: Bola Tinubu Declared Winner
As Bola Tinubu emerged as the winner of the Nigerian presidential election on Wednesday, disillusionment dominated among the millions of young voters who had placed their hopes in Peter Obi, a surprise challenger who led in some polls throughout the campaign and managed to win 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, including Lagos state, where Mr. […]