The incursion was the first time that alliance planes had engaged enemy targets in NATO airspace. Poland’s leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”
Talks of a cease-fire in Ukraine have centered on the Donbas, a valued region for both sides and where most of the fighting is taking place. Michael Schwirtz, a global intelligence correspondent, and Anatoly Kurmanaev, a foreign correspondent covering Russia, break down who the Donbas is important to and why.
The scene after a Russian attack near Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ukrainian forces have largely pushed the Russians back from their recent gains, though the fighting remains intense.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a remarkably different White House visit on Monday than the ambush he walked into six months ago. Michael Schwirtz, the global intelligence correspondent for The New York Times, explains how President Zelensky courted President Trump and managed to put the ball back in Vladimir V. Putin’s court.
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