• Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates and Crimea News

    The Primorsky beach in Yalta, Crimea, in 2017.Credit…Denis Sinyakov for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — The Crimean Peninsula dangles off Ukraine’s southern coast like a diamond, blessed with a temperate climate, sandy beaches, lush wheat fields and orchards stuffed with cherries and peaches. It is also a critical staging ground for Russia’s invasion…

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  • Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

    Video Satellite images of the Saki air base, on Crimea’s western Black Sea coast, taken before the explosions on Tuesday and afterward, on Wednesday.CreditCredit…Planet Labs With satellite images showing at least eight wrecked warplanes after explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said late Wednesday that Moscow’s mounting losses…

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  • Crimea Blast Damage Appears Worse Than Russia Claimed: Ukraine War News

    Video Ukraine claimed responsibility for a rare attack on a Russian air base in the occupied Crimean Peninsula.CreditCredit…Reuters ODESA, Ukraine — Damage from a series of explosions at a Russian air base in Crimea appeared to be greater than the Kremlin has described, as officials on the Russia-occupied peninsula on Wednesday declared a state of…

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  • Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

    The Duna oil refinery in Szazhalombatta, near Budapest in Hungary, one of three eastern European nations particularly dependent on Russian oil.Credit…Janos Kummer/Getty Images In another sign of the fragility of Europe’s dependence on Russian energy, flows of oil from Russia to Central Europe have halted over a pipeline payments dispute, raising fears that an “energy…

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  • Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

    Residents lining up at a water distribution point in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, last month.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The embattled city of Mykolaiv emerged on Monday from a 54-hour lockdown during which law enforcement officials went door to door in search of collaborators who officials say are responsible for helping Russian…

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  • Russia-Ukraine War: Latest News – The New York Times

    Russia has held the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant since March.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Ukraine accused Russian forces on Sunday of firing rockets that landed on the grounds of a nuclear power plant that Russia has seized in the south of the country, further raising the risk of an accident at a complex where the United Nations’ nuclear…

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  • Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

    New U.S. sanctions target the Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev, whom the Treasury Department identified as the owner of Witanhurst, said to be the second-biggest residential property in London, after Buckingham Palace. Credit…Leon Neal/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The State Department on Tuesday announced a major new round of sanctions on dozens of Russian companies and individuals…

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  • Russia-Ukraine War: Latest News – The New York Times

    Grain bins storing corn, wheat, sunflower and soybeans in Boryspil, Ukraine, in May. Credit…Nicole Tung for The New York Times BRUSSELS — There are many moving parts to the grain deal Russia and Ukraine reached, which officials didn’t think was even possible until mid-June, not least because the war is continuing and trust between the…

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  • Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

    Natasha, 46, a mother of six children, milking a cow at her home in Donetsk Province, Ukraine.Credit…Mauricio Lima for The New York Times Two of Natasha’s children by a corral for the cattle.Credit…Mauricio Lima for The New York Times Natasha’s children playing outside their house.Credit…Mauricio Lima for The New York Times DONETSK PROVINCE, Ukraine —…

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  • Ukraine-Russia War: Latest News – The New York Times

    Celebrations of Ukraine’s Day of Statehood on Thursday were mostly solemn affairs, punctuated by a passionate speech from President Volodymyr Zelensky.Credit…Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters KYIV — With Russian forces in control of 20 percent of his nation’s territory, tens of thousands of his citizens killed and scores of cities and towns reduced to ashes, President Volodymyr Zelensky…

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