Tag: Ukraine
Gas Prices Force Biden Into an Unlikely Embrace of Fossil Fuels
WASHINGTON — President Biden came into office promising to tackle the planet’s climate crisis. But rising gas prices,…
China Sets Aside Push to Spread Wealth in Pivotal Year for Xi
BEIJING — For much of last year, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, waged a fierce campaign to rein…
U.S. Weighs Shift to Support Hague Court as It Investigates Russian Atrocities
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is vigorously debating how much the United States can or should assist an…
Israel’s Ukraine Policy Prompts Scrutiny of Russian-Israeli Oligarchs
JERUSALEM — When Avigdor Liberman, Israel’s Soviet-born finance minister, condemned the apparent atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, this past…
In Mariupol’s Drama Theater, a Cry for ‘Mama!’ That Offered Brief Relief
LVIV, Ukraine — The explosion — deafening, blinding — collapsed the walls around them, and “the moments afterwards…
Russian Blunders in Chernobyl: ‘They Came and Did Whatever They Wanted’
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — As the staging ground for an assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Chernobyl…
Putin’s War in Ukraine Shatters an Illusion in Russia
The last time I was in Russia, the summer of 2015, I came face to face with a…
Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War
Marina Dubrova, an English teacher on the Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific, showed an uplifting YouTube…
Boris Johnson Urges Germany Not to Let Up Pressure on Russia
The risk for Britain, Mr. Powell said, is that it is viewed in other European capitals as merely…
With Russian Forces Gone, Kyiv Starts to Revive
KYIV, Ukraine — On Feb. 25, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine, Kolya Rybytva gathered his grandmother and…
Inside a Maternity Hospital in Ukraine as War Grinds On
As artillery shells fall, pregnant women are delivering prematurely, being shuttled in and out of bomb shelters or…
How Facial Recognition Is Being Used in the Ukraine War
In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and images of the devastation wrought there flooded the news, Hoan…