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 […]
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Zelensky Visits Germany, Praising Weapons Pledge and Seeking Jets
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met with Germany’s leaders in Berlin on Sunday, his latest stop on a diplomatic tour aimed at shoring up support among Western allies and pushing for faster deliveries of weapons as a Ukrainian counteroffensive looms in the 15-month war. Speaking to journalists side by side at the chancellery on Sunday […]
Zelensky Arrives in Italy for Meeting With Pope
Weeks after Pope Francis bewildered the Ukrainian government with talk of a secret peace mission, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met Francis in the Vatican on Saturday, part of a whirlwind visit to Rome that included talks with Italy’s president and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, both of whom offered their full support. Mr. Zelensky’s discussions […]
Zelensky Is Expected to Meet With Nordic Leaders in Helsinki
HELSINKI — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was expected to pay an official visit to Finland on Wednesday, the office of the Finnish president said in a statement. Mr. Zelensky was invited to hold talks in Helsinki with Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, on “Ukraine’s defense struggle and Finland’s support for Ukraine,” among other matters, the […]
Xi and Zelensky Speak in First Known Contact Since Russia’s Invasion: Latest News
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke by telephone on Wednesday, in the first known contact between the two leaders since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky said he “had a long and meaningful phone call” with Mr. Xi. The Chinese state news media said the two leaders had discussed “the Ukraine […]
Zelensky Signs Law Banning Russian Place Names in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed two laws that strictly reinforce his country’s national identity, banning Russian place names and making knowledge of Ukrainian language and history a requirement for citizenship. The moves late Friday were Ukraine’s latest steps to distance itself from a long legacy of Russian domination, an increasingly emotional subject since […]
Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Zelensky Arrives in Poland
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, after a visit to the State Department in Washington last month.Credit…Patrick Semansky/Associated Press WASHINGTON — A top State Department official has summoned the Russian ambassador in Washington to a meeting at the agency’s headquarters to criticize Russia’s detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter, according to a […]
Deadly Attack Hits Ukrainian Town After Zelensky Denounces Russia’s ‘Absurd’ Security Council Presidency
Russian forces launched a deadly attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, hours after Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s assumption of the United Nations Security Council presidency given its ongoing aggression. Six people were killed and eight were wounded when “massive shelling” hit Kostyantynivka, according to Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Zelensky Visits Kherson
Medical services have been severely disrupted all across Ukraine since Russia began its invasion in February 2022.Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Chronic diseases have gone untreated. Villagers have not been allowed to leave their homes to obtain much-needed medicines. With their closest medical center destroyed, some Ukrainians have been forced to take perilous […]
Zelensky Makes Morale-Building Visit to War Zone in East
The trip came as President Xi Jinping of China left Moscow after pledging an enduring partnership with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Here’s what we’re covering: