Пости за Травень 2022
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To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last To stand in the cobblestone square that is this city’s historic marketplace is to be surrounded by the influences captured in brick, stone and plaster o…

Hungary’s oil embargo exemption is the latest sign of its leader’s affinity for Russia. The European Union’s long-delayed deal to embargo Russian oil, effectively exempts Hungary from the costly step the rest of the bloc…

A Ukrainian court sentences two Russian soldiers in a second war crimes trial. A court in central Ukraine sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 and a half years in prison for shelling a town in the country’s northeast dur…

E.U. reaches agreement on a Russian oil import ban. European Union leaders reached a landmark political agreement late Monday to ban the vast majority of the bloc’s Russian oil imports by the end of the year, a measure t…

As Ukraine Fights, Does the E.U. Owe It Membership? With Ukraine defending European values and security against Russia’s invasion, what obligation do the European Union and NATO have toward Ukraine? The moral answer may…
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. A day after fighting in Ukraine expanded on another front, with the military announcing a counteroffensive around the southern port city of Kherson, European leader…

For Russian-Speaking Ukrainians, Language Clubs Offer Way to Defy Invaders The teacher sounded her words slowly, careful to show which syllable to stress: Eyebrow. Cheekbones. Hair. The students, arranged in a semicircle…

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Ukraine has declared that it is mounting a counteroffensive to reclaim territory around the southern port city of Kherson, as Russia devotes the bulk of its forces…

Russia Edges Closer to Seizing Key City in Eastern Ukraine Russia edged closer on Saturday to occupying the entirety of Luhansk, a key province in eastern Ukraine. Aided in part by thermobaric warheads, one of the most f…

Sounds of bombardment drown out the ‘last bell’ for the final day of school in Ukraine. The final day of classes in Ukraine is normally a festive occasion when gleeful students get dressed up and jump into fountains — an…

Drones. Crutches. Potatoes. Russians Crowdfund Their Army. Natalia Abiyeva is a real-estate agent specializing in rental apartments in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow. But lately, she has been learning a lot…
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Ukraine was facing significant military pressure on Saturday, with Ukrainian and Russian forces fighting street to street in a battle for Sievierodonetsk, one of th…

Ferocious Russian Attacks Spur Accusations of Genocide in Ukraine The increasing carnage and destruction inflicted by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine — punctuated by the use of thermobaric explosives that set off huge,…

The U.S. will send long-range mobile rocket launchers to Ukraine, officials say. The Biden administration has approved sending long-range multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, a significant transfer that could hugel…

A new report concludes that Russia is inciting genocide in Ukraine. Russia is responsible for inciting genocide in Ukraine, with the apparent intent of destroying the Ukrainian people, a new report released Friday by int…

Sievierodonetsk, the easternmost city still held by Ukraine, is nearly surrounded. Russian forces appeared poised on Friday to seize control of Sievierodonetsk after laying siege to the city, the easternmost one still un…

Lyman is the second midsize Ukrainian city to fall to Russia’s forces this week. Russian forces’ capturing of the eastern city of Lyman, which both Russian and Ukrainian officials confirmed on Friday, makes it the second…

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Amid an intensified military campaign in eastern Ukraine, and as Russian forces continue to carve out incremental gains there, the wide-scale devastation of towns a…

Ukraine agriculture minister warns that grain shortfall will be felt by July amid fears of a global food crisis. Ukraine’s minister of agriculture warned that by midsummer the world would start to feel the squeeze to foo…
As Russia battles economic pain, the West debates how to end the war. Three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia is struggling to stave off a return to Soviet-era scarcity, and the United States and its allie…

Russia attacks Kharkiv, killing eight people and ending the city’s brief reprieve. Russia shelled the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing eight people and wounding more than a dozen others after almost two…

Two Russian soldiers plead guilty in the second war crimes trial in Ukraine. Two Russian soldiers pleaded guilty on Thursday to firing on eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region from across the border in Russia, in the second w…

The outlook for Russia’s economy has become ‘increasingly gloomy.’ After sanctions hobbled production at its assembly plant in Kaliningrad, the Russian automaker Avtotor announced a lottery for free 10-acre plots of land…

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. As the economic pain of the war weighs on Russia, the country’s central bank slashed interest rates on Thursday, the latest in a raft of measures by Moscow aimed at…

The European Union’s proposed oil embargo of Russia is stuck in a standoff. It’s been nearly a month since the European Union appeared poised to approve a ban on Russian oil, a once unthinkable measure heralded as a pote…

Hungary’s Viktor Orban declares state of emergency, citing the Ukraine war to expand his power. Fresh from an election victory last month, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has declared a “state of emergency” in the…

How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country On Feb. 25, the day after Russian bombs began falling on his country, Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine’s most famous living writer, received a phone call at his home in c…

A doomed river crossing shows the perils of entrapment in the war’s east Out on the riverbank, the scene of mayhem unfolded under a baking spring sun: blown up tanks, the detritus of pontoon bridges, heaps of branches sh…

Putin fast-tracks Russian citizenship for residents of Ukrainian areas under Russian control. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday opening a fast track to obtain citizenship for Ukrainian residents of ar…

Russian shelling pummels an eastern Ukrainian town, where the mayor says escape is impossible. Russia’s intense bombardment has killed and wounded many people in the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman, according to the mayo…