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As Russian forces fortify a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, employees are fleeing repression, local officials say. Russian soldiers who control a giant nuclear power plant in Ukraine are detaining workers and subjecting t…

Russia Gains in the East, Threatening to Overrun Luhansk Ukrainian forces dug in for a last-ditch defense against Russian advances Wednesday in Luhansk Province, where the invaders now threaten to overrun two major citie…

Linchpin of Ukrainian Defiance, a Southern City Endures Russian Barrage Since the war began, Russian forces have pummeled Mykolaiv, frustrated by their failure to capture it and advance west toward Odesa. But the city’s…

As Russia renews shelling in Kharkiv, the civilian toll grows. While fierce battles continue for the Donbas region in Ukraine’s east amid warnings of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south, Russian shelling in and aro…

Western Move to Choke Russia’s Oil Exports Boomerangs, for Now When the United States and European Union moved to curtail purchases of Russian fossil fuels this year, they hoped it would help make the Russian invasion of…

The U.S. attorney general visits Ukraine to discuss Russian war crimes. The United States attorney general, Merrick Garland, is making an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Tuesday to discuss the prosecution of Russians for…

Ukraine urges civilians to flee the occupied south ahead of a promised counteroffensive. A top Ukrainian government official has made an urgent plea for hundreds of thousands of people living in Russian-occupied parts of…

U.S. officials try to predict the war’s path. When Russia shifted its military campaign to focus on eastern Ukraine this spring, senior officials in the Biden administration said the next four to six weeks of fighting wo…

Russian Journalist’s Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million The Nobel Peace Prize put up for auction by the Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov to help Ukrainian refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million to an anonymo…

The Kremlin says two captured American fighters are ‘soldiers of fortune’ not protected by the rules of war. The Kremlin’s chief spokesman told NBC News on Monday that two American fighters who went missing in Ukraine, A…

Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports is a ‘war crime,’ says the E.U.’s foreign policy chief. The Black Sea blockade that is preventing Ukraine from exporting food and other goods is a “war crime” and Russia will b…

Ukraine bans some Russian music and books as a global culture war grows. As brutal battles rage in Ukraine, a parallel culture war is underway. Ukraine’s Parliament on Sunday voted to ban the distribution of Russian book…

Russian steps up bombardments of Kharkiv, where Ukraine had pushed back its forces. Shelling in and around Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv has grown worse, weeks after Ukrainian fighters pushed Russian forces ba…

Moscow threatens retaliation over Lithuania’s ban of certain shipments across its borders. Russian authorities on Monday threatened Lithuania with retaliation if the country does not swiftly reverse its ban on the transp…

A small eastern town becomes a flash point in Russia’s campaign to seize the Donbas. A small town in eastern Ukraine has become a flash point in the country’s struggle to defend a slowly shrinking pocket around the two s…

Zelensky warns Russia will escalate hostilities this week, ahead of a key E.U. decision. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned late Sunday of increased Russian aggression ahead of a E.U. decision this week on whether to ac…

Ukraine bans some Russian music and books. Ukraine’s Parliament voted to ban the distribution of Russian books and the playing or performance of Russian music by post-Soviet-era artists, the latest display of Kyiv fierce…

What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy A New York Times analysis of visual evidence from Ukraine showed widespread use by Russia of cluster weapons banned under certain international…

Russia: Deaths veiled in secrecy. In Russia, news of death arrives stealthily. On state television, the war dead are rarely mentioned. The Defense Ministry hasn’t announced a death toll for nearly three months. Lists of…

Odesa Opera House Reopens, Defying Putin’s Barbarism In a nation at war, and a city aching for some semblance of normality, the Odesa Opera reopened for the first time since the Russian invasion began, asserting civiliza…

Ukraine’s Death Workers: ‘If You Take It All Close to Heart, You Go Mad’ For many Ukrainians facing Russia’s invasion, there is hope the daily battles can be won: A soldier may beat back his enemies. A rescuer might mira…

A Defiant Putin Says Russia Will Flourish Without the West President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, seeking to rally anti-American sentiment in Europe and across the world, lashed out anew at the United States on Friday, c…

The New Geography of the Russian Elite European cities were playgrounds for Russia’s superwealthy. But sanctions have closed off much of the world. By May, a new geography of the Russian elite had taken shape, according…

Russians Breached This City, Not With Troops, but Propaganda Gesturing to the artillery shell lodged in the ground and a rocket protruding from the wall, Maksym Katerynyn was in a rage. These were Ukrainian munitions, he…

The European Commission recommends E.U. candidacy for Ukraine and Moldova, but not Georgia. The European Union’s executive branch recommended on Friday that Ukraine be granted candidate status in the country’s bid to bec…

Putin denounces the U.S. as a declining world power. President Vladimir Putin on Friday reprised his critique of the United States as a declining power that treats its allies as colonies, while declaring itself exception…

The European Commission recommends E.U. candidacy for Ukraine and Moldova, but not Georgia. The European Commission recommended on Friday that Ukraine be granted candidate status in the country’s bid to become a member o…

Mariupol, a symbol of the war’s human cost, likely was Ukraine’s ‘deadliest place’ through April. The southern port of Mariupol has become an emblem of the human toll of the war in Ukraine, a besieged city where trapped…