The West’s export controls and financial sanctions appear to be gradually eroding Russia’s industrial capacity, even as its oil and other energy exports last year enabled it to keep funding a catastrophic war.
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Biden shores up Western allies as Putin digs in on Ukraine
The flexing of alliances was a fresh indication that both sides are digging in for prolonged conflict in Ukraine with the fighting expected to intensify with the arrival of spring.
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Russia, China show off ties amid maneuvering over Ukraine
The visit by Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, to Moscow comes as the conflict in Ukraine continues to upend the global diplomatic order.
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Putin says Russia will suspend its role in New START nuclear accord with U.S.
The Russian president says that his country will not ‘withdraw” completely from the treaty, but that Russia would not allow NATO countries to inspect its nuclear arsenal.
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Putin accuses West of igniting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refuses any blame
The speech, a day after Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine, speaks to the old Russia-West divide, with Putin insisting it was Russia, not Ukraine, fighting for its very existence.
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‘Kyiv stands’: Biden makes secret visit to Ukraine
President Joe Biden met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, a gesture of solidarity that comes days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country.
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Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
A year of full-scale war in Ukraine has failed to achieve President Vladimir Putin’s territorial aims. But at home he has tightened his grip, engineering a closed, nationalist society.
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Zelensky pushes need for speed to avoid more Ukraine deaths
Ukraine is depending on Western weapons to thwart Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambition of securing control of large areas of the country.
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Russia claims minor Ukraine progress; Kyiv readies offensive
Russian artillery, drones and missiles have been relentlessly pounding Ukrainian-held eastern areas for months, indiscriminately hitting civilian targets and wreaking destruction.
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Russia put 6,000 Ukrainian kids in reeducation camps, Yale study finds
In many of the cases, the report found, children were sent to the camps from occupied parts of Ukraine including Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk.