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Zelensky visits the battleground city of Bakhmut, aiming to show Ukraine’s resolve. In perhaps his most daring visit to the front lines since Russia invaded Ukraine 300 days ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to…

Putin says the Russian authorities face an ‘extremely complicated’ situation in occupied areas. President Vladimir Putin of Russia acknowledged “extremely complicated” conditions in four eastern and southern Ukrainian te…

Putin Visits Belarus, Stirring New Concern on Future of Ukraine War President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made a rare visit to Belarus on Monday to strengthen his bond with the country’s president and his closest regiona…

Putin’s visit signals pressure is mounting on Belarus’s leader to expand support for Russia’s war. Under mounting Kremlin pressure to provide more support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Be…

The sounds of drones and fighter planes could be heard across Kyiv. Explosions rang out before dawn on Monday in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities as officials said that Russia had launched another drone attack targeting p…

In a bomb shelter-turned-TV set, Ukraine selects its Eurovision contestant. Ukrainian musicians performed in a Kyiv bomb shelter as they competed to represent their country at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. The electr…

Ukraine Says Russia Is Training Soldiers for Possible New Offensive Ukraine is bracing for the possibility that Russia will sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive as Moscow tries to turn the tide on the battlefie…

Putin Makes Rare Visit to Ukraine War Headquarters President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made a surprise visit to a command post coordinating the Russian war effort in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Saturday, in a rare dem…

Putin’s War: The Inside Story of a Catastrophe Russian invasion plans, obtained by The New York Times, show that the military expected to triumph in Ukraine within days. We drew from interviews, intercepts, documents and…

Missile strikes knock out heating systems in towns and cities amid freezing temperatures. Russia launched dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Friday morning, knocking out heating systems in towns and…

Russian forces shell Kherson, in the south, as Ukraine’s troops bombard Donetsk, in the east. Russian forces repeatedly shelled the recently reclaimed Kherson region in southern Ukraine on Thursday, as Ukrainian troops b…

The U.S. plans to more than double the number of Ukrainian troops it trains in Germany. The Pentagon is expanding the training that the U.S. military provides to Ukrainian troops, with plans to more than double the numbe…

Russia Launches a Wave of Iranian-Made Drones at Kyiv After a Lull Russia launched a swarm of Iranian-made explosive drones at Kyiv on Wednesday, the second such assault on Ukraine in a few days, ending a three-week lull…

Ukraine’s Parliament passes a bill to regulate the media, drawing criticism from press freedom groups. Ukraine’s Parliament passed legislation this week that would significantly expand the government’s regulatory power o…

Zelensky urges the E.U. to create a war tribunal as he accepts Sakharov prize. President Volodymyr Zelensky called on European leaders to immediately set up a special tribunal to hold Russia accountable for its war in Uk…

Ukraine’s capital wakes to explosions as air defenses shoot down drones. Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, before dawn on Wednesday, sending 13 Iranian-made drones to the city, according to Ukrainian officials. Mo…

Plan for More Donors and Faster Aid Yields $1 Billion for Ukraine Repairs World leaders on Tuesday announced more than $1 billion in swift aid for Ukraine to repair vital infrastructure and survive what is already a brut…

Ukraine’s Black Sea ports resume operations after Russian strikes on Odesa. Three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea were back up and running again on Tuesday, three days after Russian strikes on the southern city of Odesa…

The U.N. nuclear watchdog will send permanent teams to all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants. The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will maintain a continuous presence at all of Ukraine’s nuclear power stations, inc…

Belarus says it is checking its army’s combat readiness. Analysts see little chance it will join Russia’s fight. Belarus said on Tuesday that its army was assessing its combat readiness, a move that comes as the country…

Banksy’s works near Kyiv have inspired Ukraine. But did one activist go too far? Many Ukrainians saw messages of defiance and resilience in the seven artworks painted last month by Banksy, the British street artist, on w…

Ukraine ratchets up attacks in a Russian-occupied city described as a ‘gateway to Crimea.’ Ukraine is stepping up efforts to isolate and degrade Russian forces in and around Melitopol, a city in the Zaporizhzhia region t…

Putin Skips Annual News Conference, Avoiding Possible Questions on War It has been an annual ritual of Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia: The president holds a wide-ranging, marathon news conference in December, making a somewh…

The G7 nations agree to set up a donor platform to funnel money to Ukraine. The leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations on Monday pledged their unwavering support for Ukraine as they agreed on elements of a new system…

Putin won’t hold a news conference that has been a December tradition. President Vladimir Putin will not hold his marathon December news conference this year, breaking with an annual tradition that dates back to the earl…

Ukraine’s allies meet to shore up defense and humanitarian support as the war drags on. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke with the leaders of the U.S., France and Turkey, shoring up military and humanitarian…

Ukraine Faces More Outages and Strikes Russian-Controlled Melitopol Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa plunged more than 1.5 million people in the region into darkness on over the weekend,…

The Brittney Griner swap puts a spotlight on Americans in Russia. After almost 10 months of war, sanctions, nuclear threats and the constant monitoring of the Russian security state, some American and European citizens c…

Rights Advocates Honored at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony Human rights advocates in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were being honored on Saturday at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo. The laureates — Memorial, a Rus…

A Chatty Putin’s Underlying Message: I’m Still in Charge The Russian leader’s burst of activity this week has been a departure from November, when he held only one extended public event from Nov. 10 to 20. Most of what P…