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Moscow issues passports in parts of occupied Ukraine, pressing on with ‘Russification.’ The Kremlin began formally issuing Russian passports to Ukrainians living under occupation on Saturday, even as Moscow’s forces conf…

Russia is resorting to less-precise weapons that cause major damage, intelligence agencies say. While Ukraine is badly outgunned and has been making desperate pleas for the West to speed up the delivery of heavy weapons,…

McDonald’s Is Back, Moscow Style, as Russian Economy Stumbles On Yevgeny Shumilkin is going back to work on Sunday. To prepare, he pulled the familiar “M” off what had been his McDonald’s shirt and covered the “M” on his…

Shortage of Artillery Ammo Saps Ukrainian Frontline Morale Nearly four months after Russia invaded, the Ukrainian military is running low on ammunition for its Soviet-era artillery and has not received enough supplies fr…

Russia defends death sentences for 3 foreign fighters in Ukraine as outrage grows in the West. As Western governments condemned the death sentences given to two Britons and a Moroccan by a court in Russia-occupied easter…

‘We Are Still in Shock’: A Month Trapped in a Basement by Russian Forces More than two months after the residents of Yahidne kicked down the bolted basement door where the Russian army had held them hostage, the village…

‘Dead Cities’ Become the Flashpoint for the Fierce War in the East Just to move about town, Ukrainian soldiers accelerate to breakneck speeds in their SUVs, screech around corners, zip into courtyards, then pile out and…

3 Foreign Fighters in Ukraine’s Army Sentenced to Death in Russian-Held Territory Two Britons and a Moroccan who had fought for the Ukrainian armed forces were sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Russia-occupied ea…

Putin the Great? Russia’s President Likens Himself to Famous Czar. Among President Putin’s motives for invading Ukraine, his view of himself as being on a historic mission to rebuild the Russian Empire has always loomed…

Russia Opens 1,100 Cases Against Ukrainian P.O.W.s, Raising Fears of Show Trials Russian investigators on Thursday said they had opened more than 1,100 cases into “crimes against peace” committed by the Ukrainian governm…

Street fighting and fires: The scene as fighting pummels Sievierodonetsk. From the high ground across the river from the contested city of Sievierodonetsk, the precariousness of the Ukrainian position is clear. The city…

From the Graveside to the Front, Ukrainians Tell of Grim Endurance Nearly 600 graves stretch to the edges of the military cemetery outside the city of Dnipro, marked by ranks of yellow and blue Ukrainian flags snapping i…

As Russia tries to solidify its ‘land bridge,’ Ukraine attempts to push back in the south. As Russia wages a destructive war in eastern Ukraine, its forces have been busy trying to restore transportation links and other…

Chernobyl radiation detectors are back online for the first time since Russia’s invasion. Radiation detectors at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine are back online for the first time since the Russian i…

Evacuating the Vulnerable Amid the Terror of War The sounds of war echo throughout Bakhmut, a largely deserted city in eastern Ukraine, just 10 miles from the front. Even with a trained ear, it is hard to tell what artil…

Ukraine’s strategic dilemma in Sievierodonetsk: Stand and fight, or pull back? Just to enter Sievierodonetsk, Ukrainian soldiers run a gantlet of Russian artillery shells zeroed in on the only access route: a bridge litt…

Bodies of Soldiers Killed Defending Mariupol Are Returned to Ukraine. The remains of dozens of bodies of Ukrainian service members killed in the battle for the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have been returned to Ukrai…

Untreated sewage, unburied bodies and unclean water prompt fears of disease in Mariupol. Exiled leaders from the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol are warning that there is a growing risk of disease outbreaks because sew…

Goodbye, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy: Ukrainians look to ‘decolonize’ their streets. Far from Ukraine’s embattled eastern front, a new struggle is being waged — not from the trenches, but over leafy side streets and broad av…

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Russia is facing mounting criticism that it is holding hostage millions of tons of Ukrainian wheat, a vital food supply, for political gain amid a worsening hunger…

High-tech Western weapons bring a challenge to Ukraine: How do they work? Staring through the sight attached to an anti-tank gun camouflaged in netting and green underbrush, Junior Sgt. Dmytro Pysanka is greeted with a k…

Battered by Russian Shells, a Monastery Remains Loyal to Moscow Of the hundreds of battle sites all across Ukraine, the Sviatohirsk Monastery of the Caves surely ranks among the most incongruous. The sprawling complex of…

Here are the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. Russia’s bid to capture the key eastern city of Sievierodonetsk is faltering against a fierce Ukrainian counteroffensive that has reclaimed significant sections o…

Ukraine aims to restart soccer leagues on its own soil in August. Ukrainian soccer officials are planning to restart the soccer season in August, hoping that the renewal of games will be a morale boost, according to The…

As Battles Rage, Ukraine Rejects Macron Plea not to ‘Humiliate’ Russia As Ukrainian troops tried to claw back territory and stave off a blistering Russian assault along the country’s embattled eastern front, the governme…

A Farmer Holds On, a Fraying Lifeline for a Besieged Corner of Ukraine One of the few civilians still driving on a road leading toward the battle front, Oleksandr Chaplik skidded to a stop and leaned out the car window t…