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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

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President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

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President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved Under Trump

President Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine has raised questions about the future of U.S. support.

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President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last December.
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Senators Demand Investigation Into Ukraine Satellite Disruption

Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.

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A Ukrainian drone operator prepares for a strike on a house in Russian-occupied Ukraine in July.
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America’s Most Expensive Senate Race

The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.

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Ken Paxton and James Talarico.
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Why Russia Sees a Window to Bomb Ukraine Into Submission This Winter

Moscow is not winning on the battlefield. Instead, it is seizing an opening to inflict immense human suffering in Ukrainian cities.

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Firefighters at the site of a strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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The Race to Defend Kyiv Against Terrifying New Jet-Powered Drones

Ukrainian engineers are rushing to perfect A.I.-guided, jet-driven interceptors. Their goal: to stop a fast Russian threat in the latest round of a deadly tech duel.

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A jet drone struck the National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 28
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As Texas Schools Add Police Officers to Campuses, Some Students Are Facing Serious Charges

More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.

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A 12-year-old in the Galveston school district was arrested after being disruptive and refusing to head to the school lobby.
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes, Defying Trump

President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in London on Wednesday.
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North Korea and China Open Their Biggest Border Bridge

The long-delayed opening of the New Yalu River Bridge comes as the two countries expand trade despite international sanctions imposed on North Korea.

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The New Yalu River Bridge seen from Dandong, China, on Thursday, the day it opened.
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U.S. Continues to Provide Intelligence to Ukraine, Officials Say

Confusion about the U.S. stance has mounted in Kyiv amid restrictions on how the military version of Starlink is used.

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Ukrainian officials have complained about restrictions on their use of an internet network developed by SpaceX.
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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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Firefighters at the site of a strike at an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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Burnham Pledges to Back Zelensky as Trump’s Ukraine Support Wavers

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who met with Britain’s prime minister, has said Ukraine received no warning of Russian attacks, but President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine outside 10 Downing Street, in London, on Wednesday.
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Senators Urge Trump to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin

A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.

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The letter, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, came just weeks after Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation intended to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.
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Senators Urge Trump to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin

A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.

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The letter, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, came just weeks after Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation intended to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.
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Trump Squeezes Ukraine, Again

The president’s proposed fuel deal with Russia and a one-sided cease-fire plan are putting Kyiv in a tough spot as winter approaches.

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The Russian strike on Pryluky, Ukraine, last week.
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Russia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged Espionage

The main security service said it had detained a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Russia’s far east, where he had been reporting on military recruitment.

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A photo provided by Russian state media shows President Vladimir V. Putin visiting the Sakhalin region in Russia’s far east in August.
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Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return

Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow this month.
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A Father’s Mission Is to Show the World ‘What Russia Did to My Family’

After a glide bomb killed his wife and younger daughter, Yevhen Ovcharov was determined to prevent other Ukrainians from dying the same way.
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Ukraine Says It Received No Intelligence About Strikes 2 Nights in a Row

Asked about apparent U.S. threats to cut off intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which can warn of Russian aerial attacks, President Trump said information continued to flow.

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A resident collecting belongings from an apartment building that was struck in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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Bulgaria Summons Russian Ambassador After More Black Sea Drone Strikes

Drones struck two ships off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, according to the country’s prime minister.

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Prime Minister Rumen Radev of Bulgaria said that a crew member was rescued from one of the ships that had been attacked.
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They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire.

Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries and warehouses have led to casualties among the foreigners easing Russia’s labor shortage.

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Smoke rising from an e-commerce warehouse near St. Petersburg, Russia, after a Ukrainian strike in July.
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After Russian Diesel Deal, Trump Faces New Crisis Over Ukraine

President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.

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Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv last month.
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NATO Details Plan to Shield Ukraine’s European Allies From Russia

With the Russians intensifying sabotage, arson and cyberattacks against European nations supporting Ukraine, NATO divulged a blueprint, in case of war, to deter the Kremlin.

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Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force, NATO’s top military commander, speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.
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Trump Gives Putin a Hand in Russia’s Economic War With Ukraine

President Trump is moving to buy Russian diesel while also pressuring Ukraine to halt attacks on refineries, a lifeblood of Moscow’s war machine.

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Smoke rising from fires at an oil refinery after what the authorities said was a Ukrainian drone strike in Moscow last month.
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Russian Film Aims to Rewrite History of Deadly Theater Bombing in Ukraine

A documentary claims that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked the drama theater in Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians died.

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The remains of the theater in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, in April 2022, in a photograph taken when the area was under pro-Russian control. The Russian airstrike on the building killed hundreds of civilians.
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Ukraine Shrugs Off Trump Call to Ditch Zelensky for Energy Strikes

President Trump lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky for striking Russian oil refineries. Mr. Zelensky said he’ll stop — if Russia does too.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a World War II memorial ceremony in Kyiv on Tuesday.
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Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia

High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.

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Former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, left, and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska took issue with President Trump’s announcement.
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Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’

Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.

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President Trump at a campaign rally in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday. His announcement that the United States would buy Russian diesel was followed by the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel exports.
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Ukrainian Drones Close Moscow Airports as Putin Flies Back to Russia

Government planes reported to be carrying the Russian president and his aides home from Turkmenistan were forced to circle or divert to another city.

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A photo released by state media on Friday showing President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Turkmenbashi.
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Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices

President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.

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Diesel prices at a gas station in the Bronx last month.
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As Putin Wages Shadow War, Europe Looks for a Way to Hit Back

Moscow has used tactics of fear and ambiguity to try to divide NATO and limit support for Ukraine. But how should Europe retaliate? And how hard?

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Gathering evidence at the Leipzig-Halle airport, Germany, in August after an explosive-laden drone was found.
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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

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A Lukoil refinery near Burgas, Bulgaria. Once the sale of the Lukoil international assets is complete, the buyers plan to expand and retrofit different parts of its operations in Bulgaria and Romania.
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Escalating Assaults on Ukrainian Cities Are Taking an Enormous Toll

At least 30 people were killed in a Russian strike on a commuter bus in the country’s east, officials said, a day after an attack on an apartment building far behind the combat zone killed 22.

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A handout photo shows firefighters in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, where a bus was struck by projectiles on Thursday.
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South Korea Recalls Envoy From Ukraine in Dispute Over North Korean POWs

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine revealed last month that two POWs defected to South Korea. South Korea accused him of breaking a confidentiality agreement.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said last month that two North Korean soldiers had been transferred to South Korea, angering Seoul.
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‘Absolute Nightmare’: Inside the Russian Warehouses Bombarded by Ukraine

Middle-of-the-night evacuations and fears about death have become the norm for workers at Russian e-commerce companies targeted by Ukraine.

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A warehouse for a Russian e-commerce company near St. Petersburg after it was hit by Ukrainian drones in July.
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Trapped in a Kill Zone, a Ukrainian City Is Beginning to Starve

Evacuation is almost impossible and food is running out in Russian-occupied Oleshky, a city menaced by mines and drones.

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A protester in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, last month calling for help for Oleshky, a city in southern Ukraine.
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Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline

The bridges, used by many commuters in the Ukrainian capital, are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.

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A Russian drone striking a bridge, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways

A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign policy.

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Cars waited to refuel at a Lukoil fuel station amid fuel shortages in August.
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Ukraine Reports First Combat Use of Its Own Ballistic Missile

While the missile fired on Thursday has a limited range, Kyiv is developing a larger weapon that could strike Moscow.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine trumpeted the launch of the country’s first domestically made ballistic missile.
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Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.

Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States.

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Russian society is becoming increasingly militaristic since the war in Ukraine began. These soldiers marched in Moscow in a parade in 2023.
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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe

The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.

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A Latvian guard patrols the border with Belarus. Migrants have streamed into Latvia, many through considerable border defenses, cutting gaps in fencing or burrowing under it.
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine

Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

Overlooking the Dnipro River before the autumn and winter period in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Russia to Sharply Increase War Spending and Cut Social Programs

Both sides are finding it increasingly difficult to finance the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s 2027 budget envisions more debt, higher taxes and lower social benefits.

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A Russian military recruitment poster in Moscow says “Who, if not you.” Russia intends to spend more than $200 billion on its military in 2027, a sharp increase.
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How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea

They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.

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A Magura sea drone at a test site in central Ukraine in June.
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Ukrainian Science Academy, Struck by Drone, Played Key Role in Research

Over 90 percent of Ukraine’s scientific discoveries have been attributed to Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, including advancements in astronomy and military technology.

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A Russian drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine, killed at least two people on Monday.
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