Residents waited behind a police cordon to return to their homes after a rocket attack in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.Credit…Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia targeted Ukraine’s already battered infrastructure with drones, rockets and cruise missiles on Friday, raining fire on cities around the country one day after President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
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Turkey-Syria Earthquake Kills at Least 5,400: Live Updates
The only crossing between Syria and Turkey that is approved by the United Nations for transporting international aid into Syria is not functioning because of earthquake damage to roads around it, according to U.N. officials, complicating an already fraught response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis. The crossing, known as Bab al-Hawa, has been the lone […]
Earthquake Kills At Least 2,100 in Turkey and Syria: Live News Updates
A quake that struck a densely-populated part of southeastern Turkey and that was felt as far away as Israel and Cyprus was strong and shallow enough to be lethal on a devastating scale, seismologists fear. Authorities in Syria and Turkey said at least 200 people have died and expect the toll to rise. The earthquake, […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers on their way to the front line in eastern Ukraine in January.Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times As Ukrainian forces battle to hold off an intensifying Russian assault in the east, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov could soon be reassigned, which would make him the highest-ranking Ukrainian official to change jobs since Russia’s […]
E.U. Resists Ukraine’s Push for Fast-Track Membership: Live Updates
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke to members of the news media alongside Charles Michel, the European Council president, and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, in Kyiv on Friday.Credit…Emile Ducke for The New York Times BRUSSELS — European Union leaders visiting Kyiv on Friday laid out the ways in which Ukraine will […]
Russia Strikes Kramatorsk Amid Warnings of New Offensive in Eastern Ukraine: Live Updates
Video Rescue crews helped injured and trapped civilians in the industrial Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, which has been the site of frequent attacks since Russia’s invasion.CreditCredit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian missiles slammed into Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, striking a city that is a key base of Ukrainian […]
Russia May Be Making Opening Moves of a New Offensive, Ukraine Says: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers with armored personnel carriers as they headed into battle near the front line in eastern Ukraine on Saturday.Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — As Western allies rush heavier weapons to help Ukraine reclaim occupied territory, Moscow’s forces are intensifying assaults along the eastern front in what President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
Journalists for the independent news site Meduza in an apartment office in Riga, Latvia, in 2021.Credit…Janis Pipars for The New York Times Russian officials continued their campaign to stifle press freedom on Thursday, labeling the independent news website Meduza an “undesirable organization” and effectively outlawing its content. The move made Meduza the latest journalistic outlet […]
Russia Fires Wave of Missiles at Ukraine: Live Updates
An undated photo of Andrew Bagshaw.Credit…Bryce Wilson, via Reuters Chris Parry, one of two British men killed in Ukraine.Credit…Chris Parry, via Instagram, via Reuters Two British citizens, Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry, departed from the city of Kramatorsk at 8 a.m. on Jan. 6 and headed east toward the front lines of Ukraine’s war with […]
Germany Confirms It Will Send Leopard Tanks to Ukraine: Live Updates
Abrams tanks at a military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, in 2021.Credit…Ints Kalnins/Reuters Weeks of political wrangling among Western allies over whether to arm Ukraine with advanced battle tanks appear to be nearing a resolution, with the Biden administration and Germany expected to announce that they will each send tanks that Kyiv has sought for months. […]