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2022-08-31 19:14:19+00:00
Nuclear monitors aim to reach the Zaporizhzhia plant on Thursday.
Experts from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency are poised to cross a front line in Russia’s war in Ukraine to inspect the imperiled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, embarking on one of the most complicated missions in the agency’s history. Read more
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2022-08-31 16:18:25+00:00
The European Union moves to restrict visas to Russians, but does not ban them.
After a heated debate, European foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday to suspend a 2007 agreement with Russia that makes it easier for Russians to get visas to travel to the European Union. Read more
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2022-08-31 15:01:59+00:00
Ukraine says it struck the Kherson region as its forces push to take back Russian-held territory.
Ukraine said its forces conducted strikes in the Kherson region in the country’s south on Wednesday as its military tried to retake ground there that was seized by Russian forces near the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February. Read more
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2022-08-31 13:23:47+00:00
A Draft for Russia’s Army? Putin Opts for Domestic Stability Instead.
President Vladimir Putin’s need to preserve a sense of domestic stability has caused tensions among his supporters to break into the open, with some accusing the Kremlin of keeping much-needed reinforcements from reaching the battlefield. Read more
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2022-08-31 10:02:07+00:00
Russia Halts Natural Gas Flows to Germany Again
Gazprom, Russia’s government-owned energy giant, shut off natural gas flows early Wednesday through Nord Stream 1, the critical pipeline that connects Russia to Germany, raising fresh worries about European energy supplies.
Gazprom said the cutoff was temporary and was necessary for maintenance, although the German government and energy executives consider it to be politically motivated. Read more
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2022-08-31 01:33:17+00:00
Experts Arrive to Inspect Nuclear Plant, but Ukraine Warns of Pitfalls
As a team of international nuclear experts arrived in Ukraine’s capital on Tuesday hoping to ensure the safety of an imperiled nuclear plant, a senior Ukrainian official warned that many challenges remained to the team’s mission, not least finding safe passage through an active battlefield to the Russian-occupied facility. Read more
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2022-08-30 18:05:51+00:00
A top Zelensky adviser says nuclear inspectors still face hurdles in reaching the Zaporizhzhia plant.
As international nuclear safety monitors arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday with plans to inspect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, a senior Ukrainian official said a number of issues remained unresolved, including safe passage to a facility that has been repeatedly shelled by artillery. Read more
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2022-08-30 14:10:13+00:00
The Vatican, for the first time, calls Russia the aggressor in the war.
The Vatican on Tuesday for the first time said that Russia was the aggressor in the Ukraine war, condemning Moscow’s invasion in strong terms after earlier comments by Pope Francis prompted criticism from Kyiv. Read more
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2022-08-30 13:33:45+00:00
Ukraine claims to have broken through Russian defenses at multiple points in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian military continued to pound targets across southern Ukraine on Tuesday as they sought to disrupt Russian supply lines, degrade Russia’s combat capabilities and isolate Russian forces, part of what analysts said could be the beginnings of a broad and coordinated counteroffensive.
The Ukrainian military said that its forces had broken through Russia’s first line of defense in multiple points along the front in the occupied Kherson region, but officials offered little detail and their claims could not be independently verified. Read more
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2022-08-30 08:49:28+00:00
The EU will likely stop short of a blanket ban on visas for Russians.
Foreign ministers from the EU are expected to meet on Tuesday to make it more difficult for Russians to obtain visas to travel freely inside the bloc, stopping short of supporting a blanket visa ban. Read more
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2022-08-30 01:38:09+00:00
The first shipment of Iranian military drones arrives in Russia.
Iran delivered to Russia the first batch of two types of military drones this month as part of a larger order totaling hundreds of the aerial war machines, according to an Iranian adviser to the government and two U.S. administration officials who were not authorized to speak on the record. Read more
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2022-08-29 20:11:52+00:00
More Vital Than Ever, Ukraine’s Trains Bind a Land Fractured by War
With the skies and ports closed, Ukraine’s railroads have been crucial to efforts to flee, to return, to keep the country going or to simply reclaim some semblance of normal life. Read more
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2022-08-29 16:22:29+00:00
Ukraine’s military improvises tactics and weapons using the ‘MacGyver’ method.
The billions of dollars in military aid the United States has sent Ukraine includes some of the most advanced and lethal weapons systems in the world. But Ukraine has also scored big successes in the war by employing the weapons and equipment in unexpected ways, and jury-rigging some on the fly. Read more
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2022-08-29 14:14:02+00:00
Russia and Ukraine welcome the U.N. nuclear experts, but still accuse each other of courting catastrophe.
Even as the world breathed a small sigh of relief that a team of United Nations experts was being dispatched to a nuclear plant under fire in Russia-controlled southern Ukraine, both sides took the occasion to renew their allegations that the other was bringing the world to brink of nuclear disaster. Read more
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2022-08-29 13:14:31+00:00
Ukraine announces offensive operations across the south.
The Ukrainian military announced on Monday that it had launched offensive operations in multiple areas along the front line in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, perhaps signaling the start of a long planned counteroffensive aimed at retaking territory seized by Russia. Read more
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2022-08-29 11:10:47+00:00
Ukraine says it has recovered the bodies of about 300 fighters killed in the siege of Mariupol’s steel plant.
The bodies of 428 soldiers killed in the 80-day siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol have been returned through negotiations via the Red Cross, a Ukrainian official said. About 300 fighters died in the area of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. Read more
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2022-08-29 07:30:55+00:00
U.N. experts head to Zaporizhzhia facility after weeks of talks.
U.N. inspectors plan to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine this week, as shelling raises fears of a meltdown. The plant is controlled by Russian forces but operated by Ukrainian engineers.
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2022-08-29 01:24:23+00:00
Shelling Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant Strikes Towns, Heightening Concern
For weeks, Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for firing artillery at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, the largest power station in Europe, in a series of attacks that imperil not just the region, but also the whole world.
The strikes have heightened fears of a nuclear accident in this area, an expanse of farm fields along the banks of the Dnipro River. Already, Ukrainian officials have rushed to hand out potassium iodide to tens of thousands of people living near the plant. The drug can protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer. Read more
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2022-08-28 02:34:55+00:00
Money to help Ukrainians has been there. Money for people in most other parts of the world has not.
Funding to ease the world’s humanitarian crises in places like South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo is falling further than ever behind what is needed for critical requirements like shelter, food, water, power and education, the United Nations reports.
That bleak overview hides a stark contrast: Money for programs to help Ukrainians has been relatively plentiful. Money for people in most other parts of the world has not. Read more
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2022-08-27 15:43:46+00:00
Ukraine steps up disaster planning amid turmoil at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
As concern deepens about the risks of an accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukrainian officials urged the public not to panic and began distributing potassium iodide to protect people living near the facility from radiation-induced thyroid cancer in case of a leak. Read more
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2022-08-27 12:48:24+00:00
The deal to export grain from Ukraine passes a milestone.
More than one million metric tons of grain have been exported from Ukraine under a deal to end Russia’s blockade of Black Sea ports, U.N. officials said on Saturday, hailing what they called a “remarkable” achievement but acknowledging that there was still a long way to go. Read more
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2022-08-27 04:31:28+00:00
War Brings Ukraine’s Women New Roles and New Dangers
Women have become an all-important force in the war in Ukraine. They are confronting long-held stereotypes about their role in the country’s society as they increasingly bear the worst of the conflict.
They are joining the military, including in combat positions, and spearheading volunteer and fund-raising efforts. And with men still making up a majority of combatants, women are taking on extra roles in civilian life, running businesses in addition to looking after their families. Read more
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2022-08-27 02:38:34+00:00
The Zaporizhzhia plant is back online while talks on access for U.N. inspectors gain momentum.
Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant was reconnected to the national power grid on Friday afternoon, but its time offline renewed concerns about the safe operation of the plant, as negotiations to allow U.N. inspectors to visit the site gathered momentum. Read more
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2022-08-26 23:44:28+00:00
Ukraine Weighs a Risky Offensive to Break Out of a Stalemate
For months Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have waged a brutal war across a 1,500-mile front line, inflicting casualties, fighting to the point of exhaustion and making slow gains in territory when they were not suffering costly setbacks.
After beginning with the Russian seizure of part of southern Ukraine and a failed strike at the capital, Kyiv, and then pivoting to a bloody artillery battle in the country’s east, the war is entering a third chapter. A battlefield stalemate prevails, with hostilities at a simmer, amid anxious uncertainty over whether — and when — Ukraine will launch a counteroffensive to try to break the deadlock. Read more
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2022-08-26 19:12:42+00:00
Latvia tears down a controversial Soviet-era monument in its capital.
The nearly 260-foot tall obelisk, erected during the Soviet rule of Latvia, had towered in a park in the Baltic nation’s capital for nearly four decades.
This week, it came tumbling down as part of a broader government effort to show solidarity with Ukraine and to remove symbols of what many Latvians consider to be a traumatic chapter of the country’s history. Read more
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2022-08-26 18:11:41+00:00
With Military Attacks and Mockery, Ukraine Pokes the Russian Bear
In ways big and small, Ukraine’s leadership is goading its much more powerful antagonist, driven by deep anger at Russia, a newfound confidence after battlefield victories, the need to rally support at home and abroad, and a large dose of psychological warfare intended to unnerve the enemy.
In doing so, it is upending the longstanding diplomatic maxim about the need to tread carefully in dealings with the Kremlin. Read more
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2022-08-26 14:06:25+00:00
Zelensky is under pressure over when and how to launch a long-anticipated counteroffensive.
As the bloody artillery battle in Ukraine’s east settles into a stalemate, the war appears now to be a waiting game for a long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive. Read more
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2022-08-26 13:10:16+00:00
Russia and Ukraine brace for a war of attrition.
President Vladimir Putin’s decision this week to expand the size of his military offered further evidence for a conviction taking hold in both Russia and Ukraine: The two sides are settling in for the long haul in a war that could last another year, or longer. Read more
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2022-08-26 10:16:33+00:00
The Zaporizhzhia plant remains disconnected from the national power grid, leaving people without power.
With Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant still disconnected from the national power grid on Friday morning, there was growing concern not only over the safe operation of the plant but the consequences for millions of Ukrainians — many living in Russian-controlled regions of the south. Read more
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2022-08-26 06:07:04+00:00
The U.S. State Department and Yale identify 21 detention sites in Russian-controlled territory.
The U.S. State Department and Yale University researchers said Thursday that they had identified at least 21 sites in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine that the Russian military or Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists are using to detain, interrogate or deport civilians and prisoners of war in ways that violate international humanitarian law. There were signs of mass graves in some areas, they said. Read more
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2022-08-25 23:58:29+00:00
Russia’s plans for ‘sham’ referendums in occupied territories brings back bad memories in Ukraine.
The warning by a top U.S. official this week that Russia is preparing to stage “sham” referendums in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine has brought back bad memories of similar episodes from the country’s recent history. Read more
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2022-08-25 17:53:34+00:00
Putin orders an increase in the size of the Russian military.
With his army struggling to make significant progress in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia signed a decree on Thursday that increases the number of service members in the country’s armed forces by 137,000, starting next year. Read more
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2022-08-25 17:11:24+00:00
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was briefly cut off from Ukraine’s grid, leading to outages, officials say.
Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant was briefly disconnected from the nation’s power grid for the first time in its history, according to Ukrainian officials, leading to large-scale power outages in nearly all the Russia-occupied cities of southern Ukraine. Read more
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2022-08-25 14:17:42+00:00
A strike on a train station is one of the deadliest on Ukraine’s railways since April.
As rescue workers sifted through twisted metal wreckage on Thursday, officials said the death toll from Russian strikes in and around a train station in eastern Ukraine had risen to 25, including at least five people who had burned to death inside a train car. It was the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in weeks, and a grisly reminder that the grueling war, now in its seventh month, continued to exact a bloody toll. Read more
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2022-08-25 12:52:56+00:00
Ukraine is hitting Russian forces behind the front lines, but has a long way to go, a top official cautions.
Even as the Ukrainian government sought to bolster the nation’s resolve with defiant commemorations of its Independence Day, military leaders tried to brace the public for a long, bloody slog ahead as Russia appeared to be aiming to strengthen its grip on Ukrainian territory it has seized. Read more
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2022-08-25 03:45:36+00:00
U.N. officials paint a bleak picture as civilian casualties top 13,000.
As Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day, six months after being invaded by Russia, senior United Nations officials on Wednesday offered a bleak assessment of the situation in the war-battered country. Read more
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2022-08-24 22:57:58+00:00
Defiance is the mood of the day as Ukrainians celebrate their independence.
The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv — was designed to assert Soviet invincibility. On Wednesday, a sprawling blue-and-gold Ukrainian national flag flew over it in a symbol of defiance. Read more
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2022-08-24 19:21:53+00:00
Russian missile strike kills at least 15 people at a railway station on Ukraine’s Independence Day, Zelensky says.
A Russian missile hit a train station in central Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring 50, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, in an attack that came as Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day and brought home the harsh reality of the six-month-old war.
The attack, which took place in an area near Dnipro in Ukraine-controlled territory, was one of the deadliest strikes on the country’s railways since April, when more than 50 people were killed when a rocket slammed into a crowded railway platform in eastern Ukraine. Read more
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2022-08-24 17:35:51+00:00
Independence Day is just another day of war for civilians on the front.
For some civilians in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, where wilted sunflower fields, debris-covered highways and the distant thud of artillery serve as the gates to the war’s front line, the country’s Independence Day on Wednesday means little. Read more
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2022-08-24 15:01:08+00:00
Biden announces a nearly $3 billion package of arms and equipment for Ukraine.
President Biden said on Wednesday that the United States would deliver nearly $3 billion worth of arms and equipment to Ukraine, its largest single package of military aid aimed at helping the nation battle Russian forces. Read more
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2022-08-24 12:45:50+00:00
Zelensky says Ukraine is ‘reborn’ six months into the war.
In a defiant speech standing before burned and destroyed Russian tanks on a central avenue of the capital, President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his compatriots on the nation’s Independence Day and for having resisted through six months of war.
In a speech aimed as much at foreign military donors as at his domestic audience, Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine was a nation “reborn” in conflict with a renewed sense of cultural and political identity, now wholly separate from Russia, and one that has united democracies with a new sense of purpose. Read more
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2022-08-24 06:33:28+00:00
6 Months Into War, Ukraine and Russia Are Both Reshaped
Half a year after Russian forces first made their move, here is how the conflict appears to the combatants, and to a continent plunged into turmoil.
In Ukraine, a delicate sense of normalcy masks a staggering toll. In Russia, new ultranationalist rules have snuffed out any vestiges of dissent. Read more
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2022-08-24 02:29:04+00:00
In Ukraine, a Nuclear Plant Held Hostage
Standing between the world and a nuclear calamity is a crew of Ukrainian workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. They are both hostages and essential workers — duty bound to prevent disaster while working at gunpoint. Read more
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2022-08-24 00:21:23+00:00
The U.N. warns Russia that show trials of P.O.W.s would constitute a war crime.
Russia and its proxies in eastern Ukraine would be committing war crimes if they go ahead with show trials of prisoners of war, the United Nations said on Tuesday, urging Moscow to allow independent observers access to detainees.
Officials in the United Nations human rights office were reacting to photos and video that have emerged of giant metal cages being built on the stage of the philharmonic theater in the occupied city of Mariupol in apparent preparation for some form of tribunal to try captured Ukrainian soldiers. Read more
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2022-08-23 20:11:41+00:00
A Security Council meeting on the nuclear plant comes at Moscow’s request.
The United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting at Russia’s request on Tuesday on the deteriorating situation around the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, where nearby fighting has raised the risk of a nuclear accident. Read more
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2022-08-23 15:56:55+00:00
For Chernobyl survivors, the threat of a new Ukraine nuclear disaster stirs dread.
The danger of a disaster at the occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant has resonated across the world, raising the specter of unknown calamity.
For Chernobyl survivors, however, at least some of the consequences are all too well known. They recall the precise features: the ghost towns, the contaminated milk, the fear and the disease. Read more
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2022-08-23 13:25:18+00:00
At a televised memorial service for Daria Dugina, many call for vengeance.
Hundreds of people, including lawmakers, writers and cultural leaders, attended a televised memorial service on Tuesday in Moscow for Daria Dugina, a right-wing commentator who was killed in a car bombing over the weekend, with many calling for vengeance and vowing that Russia would win the war in Ukraine. Read more
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2022-08-23 08:55:28+00:00
The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday at the request of Russia to discuss the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, where nearby fighting has raised the risk of a nuclear accident.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for attacks around the plant including the recent shelling near Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, that fell dangerously close to the reactors. The Russian military took control of the site in March but Ukrainian technicians still operate the facility. Read more
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2022-08-23 02:53:07+00:00
The U.S. warns that civilians face a heightened threat of Russian strikes in coming days.
American intelligence agencies believe Russia is likely to step up its efforts to attack civilian infrastructure and government buildings in Ukraine with the war about to begin its seventh month and Ukraine about to celebrate its Independence Day holiday, the State Department and other U.S. officials said Monday.
The U.S. government declassified an intelligence warning on Monday to ensure that the officials’ concerns about the threat reached a broad audience. Following that declassification, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv issued a security alert and once more urged American citizens to leave Ukraine.
“The Department of State has information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days,” the alert said. “Russian strikes in Ukraine pose a continued threat to civilians and civilian infrastructure.” Read more
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2022-08-22 19:59:30+00:00
Thousands swarm to Kyiv’s display of captured Russian tanks, placed to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day.
When the burned and blasted remains of Russian tanks and artillery were first lifted from cranes on Saturday and lined up along Kyiv’s elegant Khreshchatyk Street — the Ukrainian capital city’s answer to New York’s Fifth Avenue or London’s Oxford Street — many residents were moved and unsure what to make of the defiance.
By Monday, viewing the wreckage of Russia’s killing machines had become something of a pilgrimage. Read more
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2022-08-22 18:40:42+00:00
Estonia says Moscow has not asked for help with the Dugina investigation.
Estonia, accused by Russia of harboring a Ukrainian woman whom Moscow has blamed for a fatal car bombing over the weekend, said on Monday that it had received no official request for information or cooperation from Moscow in connection with the attack. Read more
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2022-08-22 13:24:03+00:00
A Russian spy agency blames Ukraine for the car bombing that killed Daria Dugina.
The Russian authorities on Monday blamed Ukraine for organizing the killing of Daria Dugina, the ultranationalist daughter of a prominent Russian supporter of the invasion, a claim that raised fears of a further escalation in the six-month war.
Ukraine has denied having anything to do with the car bombing on Saturday that killed Ms. Dugina, 29, on a highway in an affluent district outside of Moscow. Read more
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2022-08-22 09:58:05+00:00
Strikes on Russian ammunition sites help Ukraine, but may not change the course of the war.
Ukraine’s strikes on Russian ammunition depots have become propaganda for Ukrainian forces, demonstrating their ability to strike deep behind Russian lines. But it remains far from clear how much these blasts will shape the war’s outcome. Read more
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2022-08-22 02:32:46+00:00
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the state media’s focus on the war has shifted. Gone are predictions of a lightning offensive that would obliterate Ukraine. Instead, in the Kremlin version, the battlefields are one facet of a war being waged against Russia.
The reporting is less about Ukraine than “about opposing Western plans to get control of Mother Russia,” said Stanislav Kucher, a veteran Russian television host now consulting on a project to get Russians better access to banned news outlets. The United States is the main antagonist, with Europe and NATO its lackeys.
The extent of Russia’s staggering casualties in Ukraine remains veiled in Russian news media; only the Ukrainian military suffers extensive losses. Ukrainian civilian suffering is all but invisible. There are emotional stories about individual deaths, though the reaction is not always what the Kremlin might have hoped for. Read more
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2022-08-21 22:22:12+00:00
Daria Dugina was a Russian hawk who railed against the West’s ‘global hegemony.’
Daria Dugina followed in her father’s footsteps as a commentator who combined hawkish, imperialist views with jargon-laden political philosophy.
On Thursday, two days before her death in a car bombing outside Moscow, she argued on a state television talk show that “the Western man lives in a dream — a dream that he got from his global hegemony.” On Friday, she delivered a lecture on “mental maps and their role in network-centric warfare,” describing atrocities committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, as a staged event.
And before she died on Saturday, she attended a nationalist festival with her father outside Moscow called Traditions. Read more
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2022-08-21 15:46:43+00:00
The daughter of an influential Russian writer was killed on a highway west of Moscow.
The Russian authorities said on Sunday that a car bomb killed Daria Dugina, the adult daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist whose writings helped lay the ideological foundation for President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The authorities said they had opened a murder investigation into the death of Ms. Dugina after a Toyota Land Cruiser exploded on a highway 20 miles west of Moscow and burst into flames, scattering pieces across the road.
Ms. Dugina, 29, was a journalist and commentator who shared the hawkish worldview of her father, Aleksandr Dugin, and had been placed under sanctions by the U.S. and British governments for spreading disinformation about Ukraine. Read more
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2022-08-21 01:59:27+00:00
As Attacks Mount in Crimea, Kremlin Faces Rising Domestic Pressures
With the drumbeat of Ukrainian strikes inside the strategically and symbolically Russian territory of Crimea, the visceral reality of war is becoming increasingly apparent to Russians.
On Saturday, a drone slammed into the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, sending a plume of smoke over the port city of Sevastopol. Separately, in western Crimea, Russian troops launched antiaircraft fire at unidentified targets, the region’s Russian governor said.
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2022-08-20 20:42:53+00:00
Stars Coffee, Starbucks’ successor in Russia, opens with a familiar look.
Starbucks has left Russia. But its successor, Stars Coffee, isn’t straying far from its inspiration.
Unveiled by a popular Russian rapper, its first shop welcomed guests in a former Starbucks in central Moscow on Friday. The logo looks like a Russian twin to the Starbucks mermaid, now wearing a traditional headpiece known as a kokoshnik. The menu has familiar items, mixed with Russian-made syrups.
And many of the 2,000 former workers at Starbucks stores in Russia transferred to work in the new chain, which will be managed by the former deputy president of Starbucks in Russia and Kazakhstan, according to Stars Coffee’s website. Read more
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2022-08-20 14:52:55+00:00
Strikes in recent days disrupt Crimea’s sense of security.
A drone crashed into a building at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Saturday morning, sending plumes of smoke rising over the port city of Sevastopol, a strike that comes as Ukraine seeks to sow chaos and destruction in territory under Moscow’s firm control.
The extent of the damage was not clear in videos released by local officials and residents. Mykhailo Razvozhaev, the local Russian proxy leader in the city, said no one was killed. It was unclear if the drone hit the building directly or if it was shot down by Russian defenses and then crashed into the roof. Read more
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2022-08-20 03:05:07+00:00
Ukrainian Strikes May Be Slowing Russia’s Advance
The Ukrainian military extended the fight deeper into Russian-controlled territory on Friday, as it sharpens a strategy of trying to degrade Moscow’s combat capabilities by striking ammunition depots and supply lines in the occupied Crimean Peninsula and other areas the Kremlin had long thought to be safe. Read more
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2022-08-19 20:27:45+00:00
Europeans Debate Barring Russian Tourists Over the Invasion of Ukraine
A proposal that the European Union ban visas for all Russian tourists because of the Ukraine invasion has set off a debate in the continent’s capitals about morality, legality, collective guilt and the use of power. Read more
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2022-08-19 16:54:12+00:00
Reported Ukrainian attacks embarrass Moscow but haven’t led to territorial gains.
A series of explosions rocked ammunition depots and other sites deep in Russian-held territory overnight into Friday, including in the strategically important Crimean Peninsula, as Ukraine appeared to step up its campaign to degrade Moscow’s combat capabilities. A large blast at an ammunition depot was also reported within Russia itself, in the border city of Belgorod, and was strong enough to require the evacuation of two villages.
In several cases, Russian officials acknowledged that sites had been hit but did not reveal the extent of the damage and said they were investigating the causes. Read more
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2022-08-19 09:49:22+00:00
U.N. Chief Heads to Odesa, Facing Limits of Influence Over War in Ukraine
António Guterres, the UN secretary general, is scheduled to arrive on Friday in Odesa, Ukraine, in the midst of a war that has underscored the limits of his organization’s influence when one of its most powerful members instigates a war. Read more
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2022-08-19 08:29:17+00:00
Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.
The Ukrainian city of Odesa is a grain port to the world, a scarred metropolis steeped in Jewish history and a city of fierce independence and stubborn inclusiveness. It is the big prize in Russia’s war — and a personal obsession for Vladimir Putin. Read more
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2022-08-19 02:35:30+00:00
Ukraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Plotting Attack on Nuclear Plant
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of preparing to stage an attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, in the coming days, risking a catastrophic release of radiation. Read more
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2022-08-18 17:49:42+00:00
A home for the deaf is destroyed as Russia bombards Kharkiv.
Russia unleashed a furious barrage of rocket attacks on the northeastern city of Kharkiv overnight Wednesday and Thursday morning, destroying a dormitory for the deaf, pulverizing scores of residential homes and killing at least 15 civilians, Ukrainian officials said. Read more
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2022-08-18 15:21:31+00:00
In Bucha, Burials Continue for Victims of Wartime Atrocities
Now, nearly six months since the Russians abandoned their effort to seize Kyiv and left behind mass graves of slaughtered civilians in this Kyiv suburb, Bucha is bustling.
But they are still burying the dead. Read more
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2022-08-18 09:24:43+00:00
The U.N. secretary general visits Ukraine to discuss nuclear safety and grain exports.
The UN Secretary General António Guterres will meet with the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents on Thursday to discuss a political solution to end the violence in Ukraine and the state of grain exports. Read more
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2022-08-18 01:16:06+00:00
In England, Ukrainian Recruits Are Training for Frontline Battles
In a village in Kent, in southeast England, Ukrainian recruits have been waging mock battles directed by British commanders. The training village is designed to resemble the scenes they will soon face on the frontlines, more than a thousand miles away.
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2022-08-17 20:27:40+00:00
Behind Enemy Lines, Ukrainians Tell Russians ‘You Are Never Safe’
Guerrilla fighters have taken a more prominent role in the war in Ukraine, rattling Russian forces. “The goal is to show the occupiers that they are not at home, that they should not settle in, that they should not sleep comfortably,” one fighter said. Read more
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2022-08-17 15:16:45+00:00
Ukraine’s top commander says fighting at the front is ‘intense but fully controlled.’
Ukraine’s top commander has called the situation on the front lines “intense but fully controlled,” saying that Russian forces were trying to advance on multiple fronts as Ukrainian forces continued to grind away at their combat capabilities. Read more
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2022-08-17 13:04:22+00:00
As Russia falters in eastern and southern Ukraine, Kyiv eyes a threat from the north.
As Russian forces fail to gain ground in eastern Ukraine and fortify defensive positions in the south, Ukrainian officials are warning of a buildup of Russian long-range missile systems to the north, in Belarus, which has served as a key staging ground for Moscow in the war. Read more
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2022-08-17 11:36:40+00:00
A court in Russia fines one of the country’s biggest rock stars for criticizing the war.
A Russian court on Tuesday fined a longtime rock star who had condemned the war during a concert in May and questioned whether the veneration of President Vladimir Putin constituted true patriotism.
In a statement, the court said that the star, Yuri Shevchuk, 65, the frontman of the band DDT, had been fined $815 for making a “speech that contained public calls to prevent the use of Russian armed forces.” Read more
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2022-08-17 09:44:03+00:00
The first U.N. ship transporting Ukrainian grain to Africa has set sail.
The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine to the Horn of Africa has departed, the World Food Program said Tuesday.
The U.N.-chartered bulk carrier, the Brave Commander, is the first ship transporting grain directly to African countries that have endured food shortages since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halted food exports by sea six months ago. Read more
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2022-08-17 05:29:52+00:00
The operator of Ukraine’s nuclear plants says it faced an ambitious cyberattack.
The Ukrainian energy agency responsible for the oversight and safe operation of the nation’s nuclear power plants said on Tuesday night that Russian hackers had launched their most ambitious effort yet on the company’s official website.
The attack appeared to fail and there was no indication that it threatened to disrupt the Ukrainian power grid or the company’s oversight of the nation’s 15 working nuclear reactors.
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2022-08-17 00:00:45+00:00
To Escape the War, Ukraine’s Factories Are Moving West
Ukraine is relocating industries from the war-torn east, reassembling them, piece by piece, in the relative safety of the west. The transplanted businesses have turned the region into a new economic heartland and are forging ties with the now closer EU.
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2022-08-16 17:38:43+00:00
Ready to Party. But First Comes the Cleanup.
As the DJ played, the crowd pushed wheelbarrows, shoveled debris and swept dust. In a bid to repair bombed-out buildings, and revive Ukraine’s once famous rave scene, young volunteers are clearing rubble — and partying while they do it. Read more
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2022-08-16 12:42:49+00:00
The blasts at an ammunition storage site are near a Russian military base in Crimea.
Explosions rocked a Russian ammunition depot on the occupied Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday morning, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow’s forces a week after blasts at a Russian air base in the same region destroyed several fighter jets.
A senior Ukrainian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation, said that an elite Ukrainian military unit operating behind enemy lines was responsible for the blasts. Read more
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2022-08-16 09:13:35+00:00
A blast hits an ammunition storage site near a Russian military base in Crimea.
A huge explosion rocked a Russian ammunition depot on the occupied Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday morning, striking another embarrassing blow to Moscow’s forces a week after blasts at a Russian air base in the same region destroyed several fighter jets. Read more
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2022-08-16 04:45:40+00:00
Images of damage have been posted on a social media channel linked to the shadowy Wagner Group.
A Ukrainian strike hit a Russian base in eastern Ukraine that housed mercenaries from a private military group with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Ukrainian officials have claimed.
Reports of a strike in the Luhansk region on a base for the organization, the Wagner Group, began to emerge on Sunday night when a channel on Telegram that is widely associated with the group posted pictures that purported to show the site of the strike. The New York Times has independently verified that the images are from a building in the Russian-occupied town of Popasna that a Russian journalist had earlier identified as a Wagner base.
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2022-08-15 19:19:38+00:00
Six Weeks of ‘Hell’: Inside Russia’s Brutal Ukraine Detentions
Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, mainly men, have gone missing since the war began, detained in Russia or Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. Those who have made it out alive said they were beaten and repeatedly subjected to electrical shocks. Read more
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2022-08-15 17:27:46+00:00
Shelling near a Ukrainian nuclear plant has hit the fire station it uses for emergencies, officials say.
Shelling near a Russian-occupied nuclear power complex in southern Ukraine has hit the fire station tasked with extinguishing any blazes inside the sprawling facility, officials said Monday, amid ongoing concerns over nuclear safety due to fighting in the area. Read more
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2022-08-15 15:54:37+00:00
Ukraine makes gains in Kherson, but Russia’s advantage holds.
Out in the sunbaked fields along the Kherson Region’s western border, the Ukrainian fighters who would be called on to deliver the knockout blow in any successful effort to retake territory remain pinned down in their trenches. Cuts to Russian supply lines have not yet eroded the overwhelming advantage of Moscow’s forces in artillery, ammunition and heavy weaponry, making it difficult if not impossible for Ukrainian forces to press forward without suffering enormous casualties. Read more
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2022-08-15 09:32:17+00:00
Brittney Griner appeals her conviction on drug charges in Russia, her defense team says.
The defense team for Brittney Griner, the American basketball star sentenced to prison in Russia on drug smuggling charges, said on Monday that it had appealed the verdict as Russian diplomats began to speak more openly about a potential prisoner exchange with the U.S. Read more
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2022-08-15 03:30:52+00:00
‘They are shooting day and night’: Civilians flee the contested region around a nuclear power complex.
Increasingly frequent explosions near a vast nuclear complex in southern Ukraine and the shelling of a nearby town where many of the complex’s workers reside have accelerated a civilian exodus from the area.
About a thousand cars were backed up at a crossing point over the front line between Russian-controlled and Ukrainian-controlled territory, according to people interviewed on the Ukrainian side Sunday morning.
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2022-08-14 06:23:17+00:00
Ukrainian military condemns as a ‘savage act’ Russia’s apparent plans to try Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukrainian military leaders on Saturday sought to rally international condemnation of the expected Russian trials of Ukrainian soldiers and others who are being detained in Ukrainian territory that Moscow controls.
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2022-08-13 17:13:29+00:00
With New Weaponry, Ukraine Is Subtly Shifting Its War Strategy
Despite suffering grievous losses over nearly six months of war, Russia still holds a distinct advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fight featuring brutal artillery battles. But Ukraine’s military has achieved some new battlefield success, waging the war on its own terms.
Supplied with a growing arsenal of long-range Western weapons and aided by local fighters known as partisans, Ukraine has been able to hit Russian forces deep behind enemy lines, disrupting critical supply lines and, increasingly, striking targets that are key to Moscow’s combat potential. Read more
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2022-08-13 12:33:37+00:00
Europe joins the U.S. in calling for a demilitarized zone around a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
With recent shelling at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant complex in southern Ukraine reviving concerns of a nuclear accident, the European Union late Friday joined the United States in calling for a demilitarized zone to be created around the plant immediately. Read more
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2022-08-12 23:44:32+00:00
Gerhard Schröder, Germany’s former leader, sues Parliament over perks that he lost because of ties to Russia.
Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, has filed a lawsuit against the country’s Parliament over its decision to cut funding for his post-chancellery perks because of his ties to Russia amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, his lawyer said Friday, according to DPA, the German wire service. Read more
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2022-08-12 18:03:01+00:00
Here are the risks as shelling continues at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Repeated shelling inside the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant complex over the past seven days has revived concerns of a nuclear accident. Read more
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2022-08-12 09:02:16+00:00
U.N. ship to carry Ukrainian grain directly to countries worst affected by shortage.
The Brave Commander, the first ship hired to carry Ukrainian grain directly to famine-stricken parts of the Horn of Africa since the Russian invasion, will arrive in Ukraine on Friday, U.N. officials said. Read more
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2022-08-11 23:39:20+00:00
Shelling Threatens Ukrainian Nuclear Plant, and U.N. Pleads for Access
Shelling in Ukraine once again threatened the largest nuclear power plant in Europe on Thursday, damaging equipment on the grounds, as Russian and Ukrainian forces blamed each other for creating the risk of a catastrophic nuclear accident in the middle of a war zone. Read more
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2022-08-11 16:20:30+00:00
Ukraine Live Updates: Russia Appears to Prepare for Show Trials, Installing Cages in a Mariupol Theater
During the last performance at the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic on Feb. 20 — days before Russia’s invasion and the start of their city’s destruction — children filled the majestic stained-glass hall for a classical music concert.
This week, the sounds of clanging iron echoed through the chamber as Russian occupation forces erected cages to be used in trials of captured Ukrainian soldiers. Read more
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2022-08-11 16:17:43+00:00
Zelensky addresses the explosions in Crimea as photos suggest a major loss for Russia.
With satellite images showing at least eight wrecked warplanes after explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that Moscow’s mounting losses should persuade its leadership to “find a way out of the war.”
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2022-08-11 09:12:02+00:00
Ukraine’s experimentation with drones gives it a technological advantage.
Along the frontline in Ukraine, the bulk of the country's drone fleet are off-the-shelf products or hand-built in workshops — a myriad of inexpensive, plastic aircraft adapted to drop grenades or anti-tank munitions.
It’s part of a flourishing corner of innovation by Ukraine’s military, which has seized on drone warfare to counter Russia’s advantage in artillery and tanks. Read more
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2022-08-11 06:22:41+00:00
Satellite photos dispute Russia’s account of damage by explosions at a base in Crimea.
Satellite images on Wednesday showed at least eight wrecked warplanes after explosions at the Saki Air Base, on Crimea’s western Black Sea coast, indicating an expensive and serious blow to the Russian military.
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2022-08-11 01:05:27+00:00
Contradicting Kremlin’s Account, Crimean Officials Detail Explosions’ Extent
After explosions tore through a Russian air base in Crimea on Tuesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry quickly played down the extent of the damage, saying a munitions blast had left no casualties and that no equipment had been destroyed.
Videos from the scene and an assessment by local officials, who declared a state of emergency, told a very different story, with at least one person killed, more than a dozen wounded and hundreds moved into shelters. More than 60 apartment buildings were damaged, along with 20 stores and other buildings, officials said. Read more
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2022-08-10 21:17:28+00:00
Russia detains a former state television journalist who protested against the war.
Russian investigators detained a former state television journalist on Wednesday, months after she staged a rare protest against the war in Ukraine live on air. Read more
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2022-08-10 09:01:26+00:00
After a spate of mysterious attacks in Russian-held territory, speculation turns to Ukraine loyalists.
To reach targets deep behind enemy lines, the Ukrainian military is believed to be turning to residents of Russian-occupied territories who are loyal to Ukraine.
The shadowy fighters, also known as partisans, have been credited with a series of recent mysterious attacks: the sickening of the Kremlin-installed mayor of the city of Kherson; the deadly shooting of the deputy head of another major town in the region; and a series of explosions at a Russian air base on the Kremlin-occupied Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday. Read more
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2022-08-10 05:01:38+00:00
The U.S. Will Send Another $1 Billion in Aid to Ukraine.
The United States will send more ammunition to Ukraine, including rockets for the HIMARS launchers that have been credited with destroying Russian command posts and ammunition depots, the Pentagon said Monday.
The new shipment of up to $1 billion worth of weapons and supplies will come from the Pentagon’s own stockpiles, and will be the 18th such package of military aid since August 2021, Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon.
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2022-08-10 02:39:13+00:00
Explosions Rip Through Russian Base on Crimea
A series of explosions rocked a key Russian air base in Kremlin-occupied Crimea on Tuesday, killing at least one person and sowing confusion among local officials about the cause and whether Ukraine’s military could threaten targets on the peninsula. Read more
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2022-08-09 22:15:36+00:00
Canada and Sweden join a British-led effort to train Ukrainian forces.
Canada and Sweden said they would join an ambitious British-led program to provide military training to thousands of new Ukrainian Army recruits as Kyiv tries to shore up its defense against Moscow. Read more
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2022-08-09 20:14:12+00:00
How Russian Propaganda Is Reaching Beyond English Speakers
Efforts by social media giants to curb the reach of Russian propaganda have been limited by geography and language. In Spanish, Arabic and other languages, and in places outside the West, the Kremlin’s misinformation on Ukraine continues to spread. Read more
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2022-08-09 16:02:08+00:00
After being trapped for months, ships loaded with grain have left Ukraine. Where are they going?
Two of the ships that have left ports in Ukraine after months of being trapped there are going to Turkey, carrying corn. One is going to England. One to Ireland. Others are headed to Italy and China.
None of the ships released so far are going to Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia or other countries facing catastrophic levels of hunger. Read more
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2022-08-09 10:05:36+00:00
Blinken says it will be ‘open season’ around the world if Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is not stopped.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned on Monday that if countries don’t stand up to Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, that would give a green light for similar aggressions worldwide. Read more
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2022-08-09 05:34:18+00:00
In war-battered Mykolaiv, authorities search for informers helping the Russians.
The embattled city of Mykolaiv emerged on Monday from a 54-hour lockdown during which officers went door to door in search of collaborators who officials say are responsible for helping Russian forces identify targets for the rockets that pound the city daily.
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2022-08-08 22:07:16+00:00
The U.S. Will Send Another $1 Billion in Aid to Ukraine.
The United States will send more ammunition to Ukraine, including rockets for the HIMARS launchers that have been credited with destroying Russian command posts and ammunition depots, the Pentagon said. Read more
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2022-08-08 16:29:10+00:00
Ukraine’s east and south come under fire.
Russian forces struck areas in Ukraine’s east and south over the weekend, local officials said, as signs mounted that both sides were readying for a counteroffensive in the southern part of the country. Read more
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2022-08-08 09:00:31+00:00
Zelensky says that negotiations will be off the table if Russia holds referendums.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has warned that negotiations with Moscow would be off the table if Russia goes through with expected referendums in areas of Ukraine under its control. Read more
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2022-08-08 05:53:32+00:00
Amnesty International assessment that Ukraine ‘put civilians in harm’s way’ stirs outrage.
The director of Amnesty International’s Ukraine office resigned on Friday to protest a lengthy statement by the wider organization that accuses Ukrainian soldiers of employing tactics of war that endanger civilians.
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2022-08-07 17:21:45+00:00
Mines, Fires, Rockets: The Ravages of War Bedevil Ukraine’s Farmers
A deal allowing ships carrying grain to leave from Ukraine’s southern ports this week may have solved a diplomatic problem, but it left a more pragmatic one hanging over Ukraine’s farmers: growing and reaping crops in a war zone.
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2022-08-07 04:28:28+00:00
A U.S. diplomat warns African countries against buying anything from Russia except grain and fertilizer.
Ahead of a trip to Uganda and Ghana this week, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in an interview that it would be a “listening tour” and that she wanted to find solutions, not assign blame, over a food insecurity crisis intensifying on the African continent since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But after arriving in Uganda, she warned African countries that there were red lines they should not cross.
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2022-08-06 17:10:51+00:00
Fighting Around Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Heightens Safety Fears
Fighting raged on Saturday near a sprawling nuclear power plant in the south of Ukraine, despite warnings from nuclear safety watchdogs earlier this week that conditions there were posing risks and “out of control.” Read more
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2022-08-06 12:48:04+00:00
A Time for War, a Time for Play
A late-July morning, and the sounds of the summer camp were the sounds of summer camps everywhere as children raced from activity to activity.
But the Midgard Forest Camp is in Kyiv, in wartime Ukraine, and when the air was pierced by a warning siren, the children knew what to do, abandoning their jump ropes and tennis games and dashing for safety. Read more
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2022-08-05 19:13:50+00:00
Artillery duels near a vast Ukrainian nuclear complex heighten safety fears.
Ukrainian officials have been raising alarms for months. The world’s nuclear watchdog agency warned of the extraordinary risks just this week. Then on Friday, artillery duels near a giant nuclear power plant on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine added new safety risks. Read more
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2022-08-05 14:28:25+00:00
Mykolaiv officials take a drastic decision to shut down the city to hunt for collaborators.
The southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv will be blocked off and under a strict curfew over the weekend as law enforcement agencies search for enemy collaborators, officials said Friday. Read more
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2022-08-05 12:45:34+00:00
Washington and Moscow are ready to negotiate over Griner, officials say.
One day after Brittney Griner was sentenced to a Russian penal colony, the top diplomats of the United States and Russia said on Friday that their governments were ready to negotiate over both the American basketball star and Paul N. Whelan, who is also imprisoned by Russia. Read more
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2022-08-05 09:22:04+00:00
Putin and Erdogan, both partners and foes, are set to talk in Sochi, Russia.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plan to meet on Friday for a second face-to-face conversation in less than three weeks.
The two leaders are expected to discuss issues including grain shipments out of Ukraine and sanctions. Read more
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2022-08-05 00:44:18+00:00
Amnesty International says Ukraine’s tactics have endangered civilian lives, drawing a fierce rebuke.
Amnesty International turned its sights on Ukraine on Thursday, releasing a report that accused Ukrainian forces of putting civilian lives at risk. The report quickly drew fierce condemnation from Ukrainian officials. Read more
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2022-08-04 20:19:47+00:00
Russia intensifies its assault on Ukrainian fortifications in the east but is stretched by fighting elsewhere.
Longstanding strongpoints of Ukraine’s defense in the east have come under intense attack in recent days, according to the Ukrainian Army and Western military analysts. Read more
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2022-08-04 15:42:28+00:00
Live Updates: Brittney Griner Is Found Guilty in Russian Trial
Breaking News: A Russian court found Brittney Griner guilty and sentenced her to nine years, in a case wrapped up in U.S.-Russia tensions. Read more
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2022-08-04 14:41:25+00:00
A ship that Ukraine claims is carrying stolen grain has been allowed to depart Lebanon.
A Syrian ship that Ukrainian authorities said was carrying grain stolen by Russia was allowed to set sail from the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli. Read more
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2022-08-04 12:00:27+00:00
Russia intensifies its assault on Ukrainian fortifications in the east but is stretched by fighting elsewhere.
Longstanding strongpoints of Ukraine’s defense in the east have come under intense attack in recent days, according to the Ukrainian Army and Western military analysts.
The assaults are an exception to a general tapering off of Russian attacks in the eastern Donbas region, which had been the focus of the war for months. Read more
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2022-08-04 09:05:20+00:00
The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to accept Sweden and Finland into NATO.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to add Sweden and Finland to NATO, setting up one of the most significant expansions of the alliance in decades in the face of Russia’s continued assault on Ukraine. Read more
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2022-08-04 06:34:23+00:00
Brittney Griner’s trial nears an end with closing arguments and her own final statement.
The trial of Brittney Griner will reach its final stage on Thursday, with the American basketball star expected to appear in a Russian court for the start of closing arguments.
An Olympian and one of the biggest basketball stars of her generation, Ms. Griner has been caught up in the deep crisis between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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2022-08-03 22:24:22+00:00
Ukraine Builds a Case That Killing of P.O.W.s Was a Russian War Crime
Five days after an explosion at a Russian prison camp killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war, evidence about what happened remains sparse, but Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that they were steadily compiling proof that the mass slaughter was a war crime committed by Russian forces.
At a background briefing for journalists in the capital, Kyiv, senior Ukrainian officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity outlined evidence to suggest that Russian forces appeared to be preparing for mass casualties in the days before the July 29 explosion. Read more
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2022-08-03 16:17:05+00:00
Russia is preparing its forces for an attack on the southern battlefront, Ukraine says.
The Russian Army appears to be massing forces for an attack along the same southern battlefront where Kyiv’s troops are planning one, the Ukrainian military warned on Wednesday.
The warning, by the Operational Southern Command, raised the prospect of a more pitched, seesaw battle in southern Ukraine than had been expected in the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which has been pushing toward the Russian-occupied city of Kherson. Read more
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2022-08-03 13:07:47+00:00
On China, the normally forceful Zelensky offers a nuanced view.
Amid heightened tensions surrounding Taiwan, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday stressed the importance of Chinese neutrality over the war in his country as Russia finds itself increasingly isolated by the West.
“I would like China to join the unified world position on the tyranny of Russia against Ukraine,” Mr. Zelensky said during a meeting with thousands of students organized by the Australian National University. “As for now, China is balancing and indeed has neutrality. I will be honest: This neutrality is better than if China would join Russia.” Read more
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2022-08-03 09:05:48+00:00
About a third of Ukraine’s population has been forced from their homes by Russia’s onslaught.
About 30 percent of Ukraine's estimated prewar population of 41 million has been forced from their homes, amounting to by far the largest migration crisis in Europe since the aftermath of World War II.
There are now about about 6.2 million Ukrainian refugees elsewhere in Europe, according to the United Nations, and another 6.3 million “internally displaced.” Read more
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2022-08-03 01:09:40+00:00
Zelensky says Ukraine’s government may allow civil partnerships for same-sex couples.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, responding on Tuesday to a citizen petition that called for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Ukraine, raised the prospect of “civil partnerships,” but said the Constitution’s definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman could not be changed during wartime. Read more
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2022-08-02 18:18:58+00:00
The Biden administration imposes new sanctions on dozens of Russian entities.
The State Department on Tuesday announced a major new round sanctions on dozens of Russian companies and individuals to further punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, including oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin and technology institutions with ties to Russia’s military. Read more
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2022-08-02 15:12:36+00:00
As the fighting spreads, over 140,000 residential buildings have been damaged, Ukraine says.
Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Tuesday that at least 140,000 residential buildings had been destroyed or damaged since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, leaving more than 3.5 million people homeless. Read more
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2022-08-02 10:01:43+00:00
Brittney Griner Is Back in Russian Court as Lawyers Plead for Leniency
Brittney Griner appeared in a Russian court for another hearing on Tuesday. The WNBA star’s trial is likely to end with her conviction in the middle of August, according to her lawyers, who are trying to persuade the judge to soften the eventual sentence. Read more
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2022-08-02 09:27:17+00:00
U.S. will send another $550 million in arms to Ukraine.
The White House announced on Monday that the U.S. would send another $550 million in arms to Ukraine to help it fend off Russian invaders, increasing the total American investment in war fighting there to more than $8 billion since the invasion began in February. Read more
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2022-08-02 06:18:23+00:00
Ukraine Ships Grain at Last. It Will Take Far More to Slow Global Hunger.
On Monday, a ship carrying grain that left the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the first since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, also carried fragile hopes that it might stem a global tide of hunger.
Ukraine’s bulging stores hold 20 million tons of grain — trillions of calories trapped, until a diplomatic deal was brokered by Turkey and the U.N. last month. Another 16 grain ships are expected to leave in the coming days, navigating mined waters in the Black Sea.
But experts say that getting Ukrainian grain exports moving again will barely make a dent in a global food crisis that the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has warned could last for years.
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2022-08-01 20:11:46+00:00
Here’s what we know about the deadly blast at a prisoner camp in eastern Ukraine.
A blast at a detention camp in eastern Ukraine killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war. The attack has enraged Ukrainians, who call it a war crime. Russia said, without offering evidence, that a Ukrainian missile strike caused the explosion.
Here is what we know about the blast, its causes and consequences. Read more
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2022-08-01 17:38:14+00:00
‘One miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’: The U.N. chief issues a grim warning, citing war.
The secretary general of the United Nations warned on Monday that humanity was “just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine among the conflicts driving the risk to a level not seen since the height of the Cold War.
“All this at a time when the risks of proliferation are growing and guardrails to prevent escalation are weakening,” the official, António Guterres, said. “And when crises — with nuclear undertones — are festering from the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Read more
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2022-08-01 13:13:28+00:00
Russia has turned Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a fortress.
Along most of the front line in Russia’s war in Ukraine, when one side lets loose with an artillery attack, the other shoots back.
But not in Nikopol, a city deep in southern farm country where the Ukrainian military faces a new and vexing obstacle as it prepares for a major counteroffensive: a nuclear power station that the Russian Army has turned into a fortress. Read more
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2022-08-01 07:31:37+00:00
A ship loaded with corn will thread through a safe corridor, headed to Istanbul.
A ship loaded with grain left a port in Odesa for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine following an international deal that could ease global food prices and bring relief to countries facing hunger by allowing Ukraine to restart grain shipments in the Black Sea.
The ship was led by a government vessel through a maze of mines that had been laid by Ukrainian forces to forestall any attempt by Moscow to launch an assault on Odesa. A rescue ship followed, and Russia’s Navy granted safe passage.
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2022-08-01 04:45:05+00:00
The more people leave Donetsk now, Zelensky says, ‘the fewer people the Russian Army will have time to kill.’
Hundreds of thousands of civilians living in eastern Ukraine were ordered to evacuate their homes this weekend after months of relentless Russian bombardment destroyed the infrastructure needed to deliver heat and electricity.
"The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian Army will have time to kill," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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2022-08-01 04:42:16+00:00
One of Ukraine’s richest businessmen is killed in the port city of Mykolaiv.
Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, the owner of one of Ukraine’s largest grain storage and transport companies, and his wife were among the dead after Russian missiles rained down on Mykolaiv.
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