Yesterday
More troops, better tech: Putin’s Ukraine push worries West
Multiple factors are helping Russia’s military advance, including a delay in US weaponry and Moscow’s technological innovations on the battlefield.
- David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and Kim Barker
This Month
Blinken visits Ukraine as Russia’s military closes in
The US secretary of state arrived in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of America’s commitment to help the push-back against Russian advances that have gathered pace in recent months.
- Matthew Lee
Russia ‘captures key villages’ as Ukraine races reinforcements
Military bloggers say the assault in the north-east could mark the start of an attempt to carve out the “buffer zone” sought by President Vladimir Putin.
- Updated
- Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why Gaza is an endless gift for Vladimir Putin
Israel’s war on Hamas is a serious drain for Joe Biden as he heads towards the US presidential election.
- Edward Luce
Macron set to press visiting Xi on trade, Ukraine
France is backing a European Union probe into Chinese electric vehicle exports and in January Beijing opened an investigation into imports of brandy.
- John Irish and Ingrid Melander
April
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Fight to the last Ukrainian
More aid is clearly a relief for Kyiv, but will it be enough to reverse the tide of the war?
- James Curran
Russian missiles pound Ukraine’s battered power plants
Russian missiles again targeted the nation’s strained energy grid in a broad and complex attack, as Defence Minister Richard Marles pledged $100 million in aid.
- Updated
- Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth
‘No silver bullet’: Ukraine has weapons but still needs the troops
The $94 billion US aid package should stop Russia in its tracks, but it won’t be nearly enough to send Putin packing.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
US secretly shipped new long-range missiles to Ukraine
Ukraine for the first time has used a longer-range version of weapons known as ATACMS, striking an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine.
- Eric Schmitt
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
US aid should arrive just in time to avert Ukraine’s defeat
Even more concerning than the growing size of the invading Russian forces is their increased competence.
- Max Boot
ASX rallies; Top fundies revealed; Musk’s $500b crisis
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Zelensky says ‘chance of victory’ in race to deploy US funding
Ukraine’s president said his soldiers are outgunned on the battlefield after months of infighting in Washington, before a $95 billion aid package was approved.
- Shane Harris, Patrick Marley and Mariana Alfaro
US can send fresh weapons to Ukraine ‘within days’
The Pentagon had already moved stockpiles of the most-needed arms closer to Ukraine’s borders before the passage of a crucial foreign aid bill in the US House.
- Tony Diver
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
On the front line with Ukraine’s youngest commander
Kharkiv’s improbable resistance, led by General Sergei Melnik, faces growing threats from Russia and political stalemate in the US.
- Jack Wright
Ukraine’s top commander says front has ‘significantly worsened’
Ukraine’s outmanned and outgunned army is struggling to halt a multipronged and intensifying Russian offensive.
- Christopher Miller and Guy Chazan
Ukraine’s army at breaking point after new Russian missile strikes
Ukraine is at its most fragile in more than two years of war, according to officials, as Russian missile attacks blow up Kyiv’s biggest power plant.
- Natalia Drozdiak, Peter Martin and Kateryna Chursina
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets
Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.
- Edward Luce
US sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons
The weapons include 5000 Kalashnikov rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, along with half-a-million rounds of ammunition.
- Alex Horton
How Russia’s cheap, old bombs are changing the Ukraine war
Moscow is retrofitting “very scary, very lethal” Soviet-era weapons and launching them from beyond the reach of Ukraine’s air-defence systems.
- Christopher Miller
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Zelensky warns of dwindling air defence missiles
Kyiv is grappling with a slowdown in military assistance from the West and in particular from the United States.
- Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa
