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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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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, along the banks of the Dnipro River, is occupied by Russian forces.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Artillery fire resumed on Sunday from the direction of a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with shells streaking into a town from which the Ukrainian army has been…
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With New Weaponry, Ukraine Is Subtly Shifting Its War Strategy
KYIV, Ukraine — Despite suffering grievous losses over nearly six months of war, Russia still holds a distinct advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fight featuring brutal artillery battles. But Ukraine’s military has achieved some new battlefield success, waging the war on its own terms. Supplied with a growing arsenal of long-range Western weapons and…
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
A Ukrainian artillery unit firing toward Russian infantry troops advancing around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovske on Wednesday.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times As the war drags on, Ukraine has managed to hold off Russian gains for the past month thanks in large part to continued support from the United States and its…
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Russia’s Economy Contracts Sharply as War and Sanctions Take Hold
The Russian economy contracted steeply in the second quarter as the economic consequences of its war in Ukraine took hold. The economy shrank 4 percent from April through June compared with a year ago, the Russian statistics agency said on Friday. It is the first quarterly gross domestic product report to fully capture the change…
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
A Ukrainian artillery unit firing from a frontline position near the town of Bakhmut on Wednesday.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldiers scurried around the howitzer in a field one recent morning. In a flurry of activity, one man lugged a 106-pound explosive shell from a truck to the gun.…
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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…
