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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…

Turkey lists demands ahead of talks with Sweden and Finland on their NATO bids. Turkey made a series of security-related demands of Sweden on Tuesday, a day ahead of talks between Turkish officials and delegations from S…

Ukraine charges 8 Russian soldiers and mercenaries in the killings of a small-town mayor and her family. Eight Russian soldiers and mercenaries were charged on Tuesday with the murder of the mayor of a small Kyiv suburb…

‘Please God let him live’: Times reporters witness desperation as Russia closes in. A Times reporting team visited the beleaguered eastern Ukrainian town of Sievierodonetsk, driving through small villages and fields to a…

Russia’s Shrinking War The goals of Russia’s invasion keep getting smaller. Its forces are inflicting losses on the Ukrainian military at a cost to Russia’s own supply of troops and equipment, and they are failing to mak…

Freeing Ukraine’s food supply to help feed the world will be difficult and dangerous. Fears of a global food crisis are swelling as a Russian blockade of Ukrainian seaports and attacks on its grain warehouses have choked…

Four civilians are killed as Russian forces pound a key city in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s military pounded civilian areas, including high-rise buildings, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk overnight and int…

Russia and China held a military exercise in East Asia as Biden visited, the first since the Ukraine invasion. China and Russia on Tuesday held their first joint military exercise since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, send…

20 nations are sending new weapons to Kyiv, says the U.S. defense chief. Twenty nations have agreed to provide new weapons to Ukraine, offering the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky additional ways to fight Russ…

Companies Are Getting Out of Russia, Sometimes at a Cost On Monday, Starbucks announced it was closing its 130 stores in Russia and would halt shipment of any Starbucks products to the country. The coffee chain said it w…

Zelensky says Russian forces killed 87 people in an attack. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Monday that 87 people had been killed in an attack last week in the Chernihiv region north of the capital, Kyiv,…

American Heavy Artillery Enters the Fight in Ukraine Camouflaged in a heap of branches cut from nearby trees, the weapon that Ukraine hopes will make a critical difference in its war with Russia is all but invisible from…

A Russian diplomat resigns: ‘Never have I been so ashamed of my country.’ A diplomat in Russia’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva quit his post on Monday, expressing shame over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and des…

A Ukrainian court convicts a Russian soldier of war crimes and sentences him to life in prison. Three months after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, judges in Kyiv on Monday handed down the first guilty verd…

The Polish president visits Kyiv and says Ukraine alone should determine its future. In a visit to Kyiv on Sunday, Poland’s president said that Ukraine alone should determine its future and that the international communi…

Russia Renews Assault on Key Eastern City as Advances by Both Sides Slow Ukrainian and Russian forces traded fresh blows on Sunday near Sievierodonetsk, military authorities and analysts said, as Moscow renewed its push…

The Russian Orthodox Leader at the Core of Putin’s Ambitions As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolded, Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, had an awkward Zoom meeting with Pope Francis. Kirill…

‘Such Bad Guys Will Come’: How One Russian Brigade Terrorized Bucha When the soldiers of Russia’s 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade arrived in Bucha in mid-March, they brought a new level of death and terror to the city. Over…

Russia’s transport minister says sanctions have ‘broken’ logistics in the country. Russia’s transport minister said on Saturday that international measures intended to cripple the Russian economy have “practically broken…

‘A form of hope’: As air-raid sirens sound, a Lviv orchestra opens a summer festival with Mozart’s Requiem. The audience members took their seats among boxes of medicine, first-aid kits and intravenous tubes. The orchest…

Forced From Kharkiv, Russian Troops Regroup and Dig In Ukrainian troops sat on a bench under the trees cracking jokes. One hopped on a bicycle and cycled off down the empty road. This was the safest part of Prudyanka, a…

On Ukraine, McConnell Tries to Show the World This Isn’t Trump’s G.O.P. When former President Donald J. Trump came out against the $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine, casting it as a misguided…

Finland’s energy provider says Russia will halt gas supplies over a payment dispute. Russia will cut natural gas supplies to Finland on Saturday, according to Finland’s state energy provider, the latest salvo in a growin…

In Hungary, Cheap Russian Oil Fuels Right-Wing Culture Wars Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has fiercely resisted a proposed European embargo of Russian oil, saying it would devastate his country’s economy. Other…