Hitting an American-run factory and European diplomatic offices, the Kremlin appeared to signal that it would resist Western efforts to make peace and protect Ukraine, analysts and officials said.

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With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.

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With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.

Moscow is hosting a big summer festival as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. Katrin Bennhold, a senior international reporter for The New York Times, talks with Ivan Nechepurenko, a Times reporter in Russia, about the spectacle and what it says about Russian public opinion more than three and a half years into the war.

It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.

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A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent.

A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent.

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The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

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The strikes, which hit a five-story apartment building, a shopping mall and buildings used by European governments, were the largest on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit.

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They will join China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and about 20 other heads of state, some of whom share a strong distrust of the United States.

It starts with flattery.

When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are looking at maps of Ukraine and deciding which parts Russia should have, it’s time to make waffles.

Trump doesn’t feel any gut need to bring Ukraine into the West or understand that Putin’s invasion of that country was just his latest march to break up the West.

And while we’re at it, let’s think about the phrase “land swap.”

By putting the interests of what Trump calls “peace” ahead of the interests of freedom, we are all but guaranteeing that Ukraine will lose both.

If we bedeck him more, maybe he’ll bedevil us less.

The meeting was a stark reminder of a simple truth: The real barrier between President Trump and peace in Ukraine is Vladimir Putin.

Few East-West meetings have ended with less clarity than Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. What was clear, though, was that Vladimir Putin was well satisfied.

For more than 20 years, Western leaders have played right into Putin’s hands — and given one a shake.

Russia’s president has long insisted that Ukraine will be his. But his obsession may cost Russia more than he has bargained for.

Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Donald Trump started acting like it.

There is something Putin cares about more than money.

The meeting is a bad idea, but there’s an opportunity for Trump to punish Putin’s thievery.

Readers criticize the president’s order to send in federal troops. Also: The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska; fake science papers; defining masculinity.

The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.

The United States has accused Russia of violating the pact, which expired in 2019, for more than a decade.

American foreign policy needs both a better long-term strategy and a lot of short-term Trumpian flexibility.

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese culture and goods have become ubiquitous in Moscow.

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese culture and goods have become ubiquitous in Moscow.