Members of the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion talk to the press after a cross-border raid into Russia, May 24 2023.
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Two groups of Russian fighters have reportedly carried out recent attacks on Russian soil. What is their status under international law?
View of Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant from right banks of Dnipro river.
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International nuclear experts are due to visit Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in the next few days to assess threats from the nearby dam attack.
Ukrainian soldiers head toward the strategic town of Bakhmut on 20 may 2023, days before the start of the counteroffensive launched in early June.
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Ukraine’s recapture of villages in the Donetsk region in early June raises a myriad of questions.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has pledged to support Ukraine if she wins.
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Haley is a young Republican candidate running for president, who thinks the over 75s need to take a competency test.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
The destruction of the dam has caused massive flooding of nearby villages and in Kherson.
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Ground flooded by the Nova Kakhovka dam’s destruction may struggle to bear the weight of tanks and artillery.
Car carcasses lie in the suburbs of Irpin, North West of Kyiv.
Romain Huët
A year after two stays several weeks-long in war-torn Ukraine, ethnographer Romain Huet has gone back there. From Kiev to the Donbas, he’s on a quest to understand how the war has changed Ukrainians.
Total war: Russian president Vladimir Putin inspects operations at the tours the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant in March 2023.
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The options facing the Kremlin’s economic and military planners.
Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed. While the war in Ukraine is largely conventional, the use of paramilitary forces by both sides could escalate hostilities in the months to come.
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Both Russia and Ukraine are using paramilitary forces in their enduring conflict. But employing such forces poses serious risks for both countries.
The breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine could have lasting ecological and health impacts.
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Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the attack on crucial civilian infrastructure. Experts explain what the incident means for future war plans, and for the safety of the affected region.
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The destruction of this massive dam is a huge blow to Ukraine’s plans for a counter-offensive in the south.
‘I don’t drink coffee, I take tea’ – the quintessential Englishman in, well, D.C.
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The UK leader’s visit to the US comes amid trouble at home, with low ratings for his Conservative Party. But don’t expect much joy for Sunak on trade or Northern Ireland.
Drone strikes in Moscow shocked and scared local inhabitants.
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Now Russians may start feeling the fear that has afflicted ordinary Ukrainians since February 2022.
Armed and dangerous: Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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The Wagner Group boss is becoming increasingly critical of the way the war is being run.
‘Be a man’: Russian marine conscripts at a departure ceremony at Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg.
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The Kremlin’s appeals to Russian masculinity will miss the mark. Russian men have changed over the past two decades.
Investigators inspect a building after a Ukrainian drone reportedly damaged an apartment building in Moscow on May 30.
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Drone strikes in Moscow are just one sign of an intensifying air war ahead of Ukraine’s offensive.
Russian security forces take measures near a damaged site following a drone strike on May 30, 2023.
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As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
Meeting old friends and making new ones: Volodymyr Zelensky addressing the 2023 G& summit in Hiroshima.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Like anyone else, Russians still go to the pub, even if the TV is state controlled.
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Polarisation inside Russia and with Ukrainians and other Europeans is very unhelpful.
Is Lula pursuing divisiveness or diplomatic pragmatism on the world stage?
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Lula’s courting of – or by – China and Western powers has confounded critics. But in reality, it is a continuation of the foreign policy he pursued during his earlier term in power.