President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.Credit…Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday that a gathering of European leaders in Moldova showed Europe’s unity in supporting Ukraine and in standing up to Russian aggression, but he reiterated France’s position that full-fledged […]
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in Bujumbura, Burundi, on Tuesday.Credit…Tchandrou Nitanga/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has arrived in Cape Town amid a diplomatic storm over whether South Africa will honor an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Putin is expected […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — Frightened pedestrians hurried to get off the streets of Ukraine’s capital and into underground shelters on Monday morning as Russian forces launched a rare daytime missile attack on Kyiv. Air-raid alarms sounded shortly after 11 a.m. local time, sending parents racing to get their children to safety and hospital workers to take […]
Prigozhin Forecasts Disaster if Russia Does Not Move Into Total War Footing
As Russia vowed to respond “extremely harshly” to a rare, two-day border incursion by pro-Ukrainian fighters, the leader of Russia’s largest mercenary force warned that it faced further setbacks unless its ruling elite took drastic, and likely unpopular, measures to win the war. “The most likely scenario for us in a special operation would not […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
As attacks by Ukrainian-aligned insurgents in Russian territory stretched into a third day on Wednesday, concerns were rising in Russia that the rare border incursion could create new battlefield problems — and it has increased calls for the military to expend more resources defending against such assaults. A group composed of anti-Kremlin Russian fighters, the […]
Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Zelensky Visits the U.K.
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 […]
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 […]
Iraqi Man Accused of War Crimes Is Arrested in Belgium
The Belgian authorities have arrested an Iraqi man suspected of involvement in a Qaeda terrorist cell that was partly responsible for a series of bombings nearly 15 years ago that killed at least 376 people in Iraq, Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said on Friday. The man, identified only by the initials O. Y. T., has […]
Ukraine War News: White House Rejects Kremlin Claim of a Role in Explosions
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday redoubled his call for an independent tribunal to investigate and prosecute Russian war crimes, using a speech in The Hague to demand accountability and invoking the trials of Nazis in Nuremberg after World War II. “Impunity is the key that opens the door to aggression,” Mr. Zelensky said […]
Sudan’s Conflict Ignites Fears of Civil War in Darfur
After a cease-fire faltered in Sudan’s capital, two weeks of fighting between the country’s army and a paramilitary group have reignited violence in Darfur, a region scarred by two decades of genocidal conflict that left as many as 300,000 people dead. A cease-fire scheduled to end on Sunday night fell apart on Saturday as the […]