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The pontiff also reiterated his readiness to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine....
The Turkish president has leveraged his closeness with Putin to expand his international influence and shore up Turkey’s faltering economy....
Russian forces are putting pressure on Ukraine along a growing portion of the front line, with attacks coming in the Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in recent weeks, in addition to the fierce fighting around Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. ...
More Russian migrants are traveling through Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S., taking advantage of expanded exemptions to Title 42 border restrictions....
Moscow and Tehran are moving ahead with plans to build a factory in Russia that could make at least 6,000 Iranian-designed drones for the Ukraine war, said officials from a country aligned with the U.S....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in the country’s east was very difficult, as Russia pressed for territorial gains around the city of Bakhmut and prepared for an expected offensive in the coming weeks....
Groups of volunteers play a key role in a battle taking place far from the war’s front lines: protecting Ukraine from Russian drones and missiles targeting the civilian infrastructure....
The toll is likely to continue to rise as the Kremlin readies a fresh offensive in the coming weeks....
The U.S. and its allies agreed to cap the sales prices of premium Russian petroleum products such as diesel and low-value ones such as fuel oil....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned his country to prepare for a wider onslaught nearly one year since the start of the war....
The CIA director visited Libya amid concerns the Kremlin-linked outfit, which has played an increasing battlefield role in the Ukraine war, may tap into the country’s oil riches....
Turkish companies last year exported tens of millions of dollars worth of machinery, electronics, spare parts and other items that Russia needs for its military, according to a survey of trade data....
Europe’s dependence on Russian energy is drawing to a close, leaving the continent racing to squirrel away fuels and find alternative supplies....
Ukraine last summer stunned Russian troops with precision strikes from U.S.-supplied Himars mobile rocket launchers. Now an even more potent rocket system holds the potential to re-energize Kyiv’s troops....
Russian forces said they had made new advances in their effort to encircle the eastern Ukrainian city, while European leaders arrived in Kyiv to discuss further military aid....
The Russian president used a commemoration of a pivotal World War II battle to marshal support for his military campaign in Ukraine....
The European Union will double the number of Ukrainian troops it trains to 30,000, a senior EU official says, in a sign of the bloc’s continued support for Kyiv’s war effort....
The country has been supplying the U.S. and its allies and is coming under pressure to aid Kyiv directly....
Authorities raided the home of a billionaire who had backed Volodymyr Zelensky’s successful presidential run in 2019....
A top Ukrainian security official said that Russia is preparing for what he called maximum escalation....
While executives aren’t breaking any laws if working at companies that aren’t sanctioned by the U.S. or its allies, Kyiv says their presence risks undermining broader efforts to isolate the country internationally....
Sale of long-range, high-speed Reaper unmanned aircraft would require Biden administration approval....
Tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risk endangering cooperation on arms control and negotiating a successor to the New START treaty....
Kyiv said its forces had repelled multiple Russian attacks around Bakhmut, as Moscow’s troops pushed to encircle the besieged city....
A city of some 80,000 before the war, the eastern Ukrainian city is now home to barely a few thousand who endure hardship every day, as Russian forces press forward house by house and bombard it with artillery....
Russian forces have battered Ukrainian positions in recent weeks, pushing for a breakthrough before tanks pledged by Kyiv’s partners begin to arrive on the battlefield....
South Korea has sent materials such as gas masks, bulletproof vests and medical supplies to Ukraine, but has declined to provide lethal weapons....
Kyiv urged the West to provide longer-range firepower to counter Russia’s missile barrages as Russia’s invasion forces tightened the noose around the beleaguered eastern city....
Customs agents in Finland work to enforce Western sanctions on exports, blocking shipments of items from luxury cars to sonar gear....
Russia is keeping its oil moving, defying fears that sanctions would lead to a plunge in exports, with the help of several international startups plying new trade routes to mostly Asian buyers....
