JERUSALEM — A day after his surprise meeting at the Kremlin with President Vladimir V. Putin, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel said on Sunday that he would continue to assist with dialogue between the sides in the Ukraine conflict, “even if the chance is not great.” Though few details have emerged from the meeting, […]
LVIV, Ukraine — Municipal workers were wrapping statues in protective coverings and boarding up the stained-glass windows of the many churches that fill this historic European city in western Ukraine, as the population readied for war. The city of Lviv, no more than 50 miles from the border with Poland, has been spared any direct […]
March 5, 2022, 5:59 a.m. ET March 5, 2022, 5:59 a.m. ET Ukrainian refugees in Palanca, Modova, after fleeing Ukraine on Tuesday.Credit…Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times CHISINAU, Moldova — Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused the fastest-moving flow of refugees in Europe since the end of World War II, the head of the […]
KYIV, Ukraine — The crowds of exhausted, frightened women and children at Kyiv’s central train station on Friday suddenly surged in a near-stampede to a station platform where a train heading to safety in western Ukraine was rumored to be arriving soon. “Hurry! Hurry!” a mother shouted at her children. One couple ran along holding […]
A fire broke out early Friday at a complex in southern Ukraine housing Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after Russian troops fired on the area, and the Russian military later took control of the site, Ukrainian officials said. Security camera footage verified by The New York Times showed a building ablaze inside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear […]
A fire broke out early Friday morning at a complex in southern Ukraine that is home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, after Russian troops fired on the area, Ukraine’s foreign minister said. Security camera footage filmed early on Friday and verified by The Times showed a building ablaze inside the power complex near a […]
LVIV, Ukraine — One week into their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces are ramping up assaults on civilian areas, making strategic advances in the coastal south and beginning to lay siege to major cities. The invasion by President Vladimir V. Putin’s troops, which began on Feb. 24, kicked off Europe’s largest ground war since World […]
ODESSA, Ukraine — Russian forces on Wednesday seized the first major Ukrainian city in their onslaught, the strategic port of Kherson, as they stepped up bombardment of civilian targets across the country, put other cities under siege and pushed to encircle and cut off the capital, Kyiv. Russian troops and tanks rolled into Kherson, on […]
BEIJING — Organizers of the Beijing Winter Paralympics will allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete when the Games open this week, despite mounting pressure to exclude Russia and its teams from global sports as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. The executive board of the International Paralympic Committee, which organizes the Games, declared […]
ON THE UKRAINIAN-MOLDOVAN BORDER — The war in Ukraine has set off the fastest mass migration in Europe in at least three decades, prompting comparisons with the Balkan wars of the 1990s and providing echoes of the vast population displacement that followed World War II. At least 660,000 people, most of them women and children, […]
