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President Trump said Monday he wants to strike a deal with Ukraine whereby Kyiv would supply the United States with rare earth minerals in exchange for American aid, offering the clearest sign yet of his transactional approach to supporting the war-torn nation. “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine, where they’re going to secure…
Hours after an explosion at an upscale Moscow apartment complex killed the founder of a unit fighting on Russia’s side in the war against Ukraine, it was unclear who was behind the blast, but two theories immediately came to the fore. It could have been a gangland-style killing linked to business or criminal disputes —…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents were killed when a Russian missile strike obliterated their apartment block in Ukraine this weekend. Young Sofia Yavorska was struck by a Russian Kh-22 missile, amid escalation by Putin of strikes on Ukraine despite supposed negotiations with Donald Trump aimed at ending the war. Sofia’s grief-stricken grandfather Igor revealed how his…
KYIV — Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, Western nations have accused China of supplying Moscow with microchips and other critical dual-use technologies that are “powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression.” In response, Washington and Brussels have hit hundreds of Chinese companies and individuals with sanctions in a pressure…
He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions. President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim at the last Western tech platform barely standing in wartime Russia: YouTube….
When Ukraine declared its independence from the U.S.S.R in August 1991., Kyiv came into possession of the third largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world, after the Soviet Union and the United States. Besides large and complex strategic missiles, Kyiv had also taken over thousands of the Soviet Union’s “tactical” nuclear devices, designed to be…
Aprovechando su impulso en el este de Ucrania, las fuerzas rusas han tomado el control de otra pequeña ciudad, según los expertos militares, dando un paso más en su afanosa ofensiva para conquistar toda la región de Donetsk. Los mapas del campo de batalla elaborados por grupos independientes que analizan imágenes por satélite e imágenes…
OSWIECIM, Poland — Survivors of the Auschwitz death camp joined European leaders to mark the 80th anniversary of their liberation against a backdrop of rising support for far-right parties, particularly in Germany as it heads toward parliamentary elections next month. Many of the now elderly survivors wore blue-and-white striped scarves reminiscent of their camp uniforms…
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered government officials to report on the U.S. support programs whose funds are “currently suspended” under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. “These are humanitarian programs,” Zelenskyy said in his daily address Tuesday. Nearly all of them were not channeled through Ukrainian government, he said. Instead, went “directly through our communities,…
A top Russian delegation arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government last month, as Russia looks to negotiate the future of its military bases in Syria with the country’s new leadership. Among the diplomats to arrive in the Syrian capital on Tuesday were Russia’s deputy foreign…
