Strained by the need to finance its war machine, the Russian government said on Tuesday that it posted a $47 billion budget deficit in 2022, which is the second-highest since the break up of the Soviet Union. The budget gap reached 3.3 trillion rubles in 2022, or 2.3 percent of the size of the Russian […]
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New Armored Vehicles Will Help Ukraine Take the Fight to Russia
BRUSSELS — They will soon be covered in mud, riddled with shrapnel damage and under fire on Ukraine’s battlefields. But the three new types of armored vehicles offered to Ukraine this week signal that the Western allies are gearing up for another bloody year as the war enters a new phase of Ukrainian offensives against […]
Russia Says Its Soldiers’ Cellphone Use Led to Deadly Strike: Live Updates
Workers at the site of a Russian missile and drone strike in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Sunday.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times They are lumbering and noisy and relatively easy to shoot from the sky. Over the New Year’s weekend, the Ukrainian military said it downed every single one of the 80-odd exploding […]
Ukraine Rocked as Russia Launches New Wave of Strikes: Live Updates
Russian strikes hit several locations in Kyiv and around Ukraine as Russia launched what appeared to be one of its biggest strikes to date.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions rocked towns and cities around Ukraine on Thursday morning and electricity went out in several regions as Russia launched what appeared […]
Ukraine Pushes to Recapture Kreminna From Russia: Live Updates
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies in early December shows Engels air base in Russia.Credit… Maxar Tech KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is striking more boldly at targets deep in Russian territory because Kyiv has assessed that Moscow’s military is fighting at the limits of its conventional capabilities, former military officials and analysts say. So […]
Biden and Zelensky Present a United Front Against Russia
WASHINGTON — President Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine presented a united front against Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday, even as Mr. Zelensky warned that his country was digging in for a long, cold winter of war and had little hope of securing a just peace with the “terrorists” who are battering […]
Zelensky Takes Plea To Congress as Russia Pounds Ukraine: Live Updates
A close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, on Wednesday, a sign of the countries’ alignment amid Russia’s deepening international isolation. Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister, held a previously unannounced meeting with Mr. Xi in Beijing as Chinese and Russian naval […]
What Russia Got Wrong – The New York Times
Nearly 10 months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has suffered great losses. Its military has faltered against a foe that, before the war, appeared much weaker. A team of Times journalists published an account this weekend of how Russia so badly mismanaged its invasion, based on interviews, intercepted phone calls, documents and secret battle […]
Russia Fires Wave of Missiles Across Ukraine: Live Updates
Sheltering inside a subway station during Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.Credit…Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Friday morning, knocking out heating systems in towns and cities across the country as temperatures dropped well below freezing and prompting the national […]
Russia Targets Kyiv With Drones in Morning Attacks: Ukraine War News
Officers inspecting the site of an attack in Kyiv on Wednesday.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, before dawn on Wednesday, sending 13 Iranian-made drones from the Sea of Azov to the city, according to Ukrainian officials. Most of the drones were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses, […]