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How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

Par :Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien
Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion.

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Members of Taiwan’s military operating a drone during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Changhua, Taiwan, on Thursday.
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As Ukraine Strikes Wildberries, Russia’s Richest Businesswoman Faces Her Biggest Test Yet

Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva · Paul Sonne · Alina Lobzina and Oleg Matsnev
As Ukraine repeatedly strikes warehouses of the e-commerce site Wildberries, Tatyana Kim, its billionaire co-founder, faces her biggest test yet.

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Tatyana Kim, the billionaire co-founder of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace, in June.
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What to Know About Wildberries, the Company in Ukraine’s Cross Hairs

Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva
Ukrainian drones have increasingly targeted warehouses belonging to Wildberries, which many Russians rely on as the country’s largest e-commerce business.

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An advertisement for Wildberries in Moscow. Several of the company’s warehouses have ceased operations after attacks from Ukraine.
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Amid Intensifying Russian Strikes, Ukraine’s Pleas for Air Defenses Are Falling Flat

Par :Constant Méheut
Western allies are more hesitant to give up interceptor missiles they may need for their own defense as war rages on multiple fronts.

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The aftermath of a Russian attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
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Wars, Wildfires and Migrants Leave Europe Straining for Control

Par :Michael D. Shear
A brutal summer has exposed how much pressure European countries are under from forces largely out of their grip: war in Iran and Ukraine, record heat and more.

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Firefighters in Lanton, a town southwest of Bordeaux, France, last week.
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Russia’s Deadly Missile Attack on Kyiv Exploits Ukraine’s Depleted Air Defenses

Par :Marc Santora
At least 17 people were killed, officials said, as the country runs desperately low on interceptor missiles that could fend off Russian bombardments.

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Smoke rising over Kyiv, Ukraine, after a strike on Wednesday. It was the third major attack on the capital in a week.
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A New Lethal Front in Ukraine: Its Beloved Gas Stations

Par :Cassandra Vinograd and Oleksandr Chubko
Russian drone attacks have hit hundreds of gas stations in apparent retaliation for Ukraine’s attacks on oil refineries.

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Russian Opposition Politician Flees to France

Par :Valerie Hopkins
Boris B. Nadezhdin, 63, appeared in a video standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. He said he was “alive and free, but, unfortunately, not yet in Russia.”

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Boris Nadezhdin, a Russian opposition politician, at his home in Moscow in June. His departure means antiwar Russians have one fewer advocate in the country’s ever-shrinking public sphere.
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Russian Strike Destroyed Millions of H.I.V. Prevention Supplies in Ukraine

Par :Apoorva Mandavilli and Constant Méheut
No medications were affected, but if new prevention items are not procured, aid groups fear a surge in new infections next year.

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A building damaged in a Russian missile attack in the region around Kyiv, Ukraine, last month.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More

Par :Linda Qiu
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.

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President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while deployed to Jordan last month.
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The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.

Par :Paul Sonne and Milana Mazaeva
Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.

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Artyom Vovchenko deserted the Russian military, fled to the United States, was deported back to Russia and escaped again.
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Russian Missiles Kill 9 in Kyiv After Trump Backs Off Air-Defense Pledge

Par :Constant Méheut
Ukraine’s supply of Patriot missile interceptors is dwindling, and on Friday, President Trump backed away from his promise to let Ukraine make them itself.

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Rescuers working on Saturday outside a residential building damaged in a strike on Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Trump Backs Away From Deal to Let Ukraine Build Patriot Missiles

Par :Chris Cameron
The president of Ukraine had warned that the country was running out of Patriot interceptors, the most reliable weapon it has to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles.

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President Trump holding a cabinet meeting on Friday at Camp David in Maryland.
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Ukraine’s Strike on Iranian Ship Shows How Two Wars Could Spiral

Par :Edward Wong
Iran sent military aid to Russia for its war against Ukraine. Now the question is whether that conflict and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran are converging.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Mr. Zelensky has tried to make the case that the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine have some common elements.
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Political Turmoil Will Not Derail Killer Robot Program, Ousted Minister Says

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
The Ukrainian former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, an advocate for drone and robot warfare, says the country’s tech-heavy strategy will persist.

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Ukraine’s former defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in central Kyiv, on Thursday. His firing set off street protests in the capital and other cities.
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NATO Says Russian Missile Hit Poland During Ukraine Attack

Par :Lara Jakes and Constant Méheut
Russian missiles have briefly entered Polish airspace in the past. Investigators have yet to definitively identify the object that struck overnight.

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Emergency services on Thursday at the site where an object landed near Lublin, Poland.
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Russia Strikes Ukraine With Missiles and Drones, Killing at Least 8

Par :Constant Méheut
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said five members of a family had been killed in the latest large-scale aerial assault by Moscow.

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In Lviv, western Ukraine, on Thursday morning, at the site of a Russian missile strike. The overnight attack pushed Russia’s use of ballistic missiles to a new monthly record.
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Ukraine’s Strike on an Iranian Ship Could Bring Two Wars Closer

Par :Constant Méheut and Qasim Nauman
The attack in the Caspian Sea was an unusually direct encounter between two countries that have been on opposite sides for years.

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The southern coast of the Caspian Sea at the port city of Bandar Anzali, Iran, last year.
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Zelensky and Trump Meet at the White House. Has Their Relationship Thawed?

Par :Kim Barker and Ken Bensinger
President Trump meets his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington this week. President Volodymyr Zelensky also attended the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham.

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President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., last year.
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Ukrainian Attacks in Crimea Deprive Towns of Power and Water

Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva
Ukraine’s campaign to bring the war home to ordinary Russians is meant to pressure the Kremlin to negotiate. Moscow has acted as if there were no crisis.

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A pedestrian using a flashlight during a temporary power outage in Yevpatoriya, Crimea, this month.
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Russia and Ukraine Trade Deadly Blows With Missiles and Drones

Par :Marc Santora and Valerie Hopkins
Ukrainian strikes set fire to warehouses and other sites in Russia, and Russian bombing rocked Ukraine’s capital, as the two countries escalated an air campaign.

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Zelensky’s Dizzying U-Turn Is the Latest Zigzag in a Presidency Full of Them

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has pivoted from unpopular moves before, but a recent decision about military leadership and strategy could weaken his position.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a visit to Paris this month. His country is in the grips of some of the worst turbulence in domestic politics since Russia’s all-out invasion in 2022.
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A New Target for Ukraine’s Long-Range Attacks: Russia’s Version of Amazon

Par :Valerie Hopkins and Alina Lobzina
Kyiv is escalating its air war by striking commercial warehouses, trying to bring the conflict closer to home for ordinary Russians.

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Smoke rising from a fire at a Wildberries logistics complex in Elektrostal, near Moscow, on July 18, after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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A Russian Spy, Suddenly Cast Into the Spotlight, Flees Japan

Par :Michael Schwirtz · Adam Goldman and Jane Bradley
The military intelligence officer left the country after The Times reported that he was using the Aeroflot airline office in Tokyo to conduct espionage.

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Toranomon Kotohira Tower is home to the Aeroflot airline office in Tokyo.
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Firing of Ukraine’s Top General Signals the End of an Era

Par :Carlotta Gall
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, who commanded crucial battles, oversaw an expansion of drone warfare against Russia, but many Ukrainians want even more.

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Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi in a trench position north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in 2022.
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Ukraine’s New Military Chief Faces a Monumental Test

Par :Marc Santora
Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi faces a balancing act between asserting the independence favored by military reformers and accommodating political input on battlefield strategy.

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In a photograph released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service, Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi attended a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
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After Decades of Caution, Germany Is Shaking Up How It Makes Weapons

Par :Christopher F. Schuetze
As threats from Moscow rise and support from Washington dwindles, the German military is reinventing how it researches, funds and wields 21st-century arms.

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Testing a drone-jammer at Erding Air Base, Germany, in May.
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Mykhailo Drapatyi: What to Know About Ukraine’s New Top General

Par :Cassandra Vinograd
Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi, a decorated commander, is popular both inside and outside of his country.

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Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi speaking to journalists in Ukraine last year.
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Zelensky Dismisses Ukraine’s Top General After Protests

Par :Marc Santora
The move followed the firing of a popular defense minister, who had clashed with the general over how to fight the war.

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Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in March.
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When Protesters Speak, Zelensky Listens, in the Ukrainian Tradition

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
With anger high over the firing of the defense minister, the president’s office is signaling an openness to compromise.

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A photograph released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on Monday showing President Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with Gen. Mykhailo Drapaty, the commander of the Joint Forces, in Kyiv.
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Zelensky Faces Pressure to Remove Ukraine’s Top General

Par :Marc Santora · Liubov Sholudko and Stanislav Kozliuk
Demonstrators and many soldiers want President Volodymyr Zelensky to reaffirm the vision of drone warfare laid out by the defense minister he fired last week.

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Protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine, last week criticized President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to dismiss Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
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Ukraine War Momentum Helps Spur Interest in Postwar Investment

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
At a conference on reconstruction, the focus shifted to private investment, not donor assistance.

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The Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk, Poland, in June. The overarching pitch was to put money into Ukraine even as it remains at war.
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Russia Batters Kyiv in One of the Largest Missile Assaults of the War

Par :Cassandra Vinograd and Marc Santora
On Saturday, Ukraine hit two warehouses in Russia in strikes that killed at least eight people and injured 62.

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A helicopter dropping water on Sunday over the site of a Russian missile strike in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s Top General Becomes a Target of Protesters’ Anger

Par :Andrew E. Kramer and Cassandra Vinograd
Demonstrators supporting Ukraine’s ousted defense minister have begun denouncing the commander he clashed with in office, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi.

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People in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday protesting President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to oust Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had championed drone warfare.
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