The Asian country, a signatory to the Rome Statute, is obliged to arrest the Russian leader but the Kremlin issued a message of calm: ‘All the details of the president’s visit have been carefully prepared, of course’
The platform’s chief executive has been arrested in France. Speculation about the motives for his detention makes it more difficult to understand the consequences of a surprising decision
EL PAÍS accesses the Russian territories occupied by Ukraine, where Kyiv’s soldiers are optimistic for the first time after a year of fighting on the back foot
Russian troops are approaching Pokrovsk, a key defensive city in the Donbas region, while Kyiv’s forces are starting to construct defensive lines in the border region into which an incursion was launched earlier this month
Investigators also point to two other Ukrainians as being part of a team of divers who placed explosives on the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany
The Ukrainian army’s incursion into Kursk province highlights the enemy’s military weaknesses, but also increases tensions between the Kremlin and Kyiv and its allies
The burial ground houses 1,000 soldiers from the mercenary group, whose leader died in a plane crash after leading a mutiny against Vladimir Putin. In the villages of the province, the absence of young people who have gone to the front is palpable
The case of the couple who posed as Argentines and whose children did not know they were Russian before being exchanged in a prisoner swap shows the importance that Vladimir Putin places on deep-cover agents
Zelenskiy argues that the Kremlin must ‘feel what it has done,’ suggesting that the Ukrainian Army is behind the offensive in Kursk Oblast. Analysts believe the move is an attempt to draw away Russian forces from the Donetsk front
The political leader of one of the provinces hardest hit by the Russian invasion says that military aid and permission from the Western allies to attack targets on enemy soil are yielding results
The use of the Danube and Constanta ports in Romania, coupled with the success of securing the Odesa-Bosphorus route, has boosted Ukrainian grain exports to near pre-war levels
Turkey claims to have coordinated the exchange of 24 prisoners, plus two minors, from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus. Turkish intelligence sources told EL PAÍS that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entrusted his secret service chief to personally handle the case
The president of Ukraine wants to organize conferences on energy and food security, and the return of prisoners of war and deported minors, between July and September. Moscow is refusing to participate in a second round of dialogue
After talking about ‘Vice President Trump’ and introducing Ukraine’s Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin,’ the president insists he is still the ‘best qualified person’ to defeat his Republican rival. But more Democrats are asking him to step aside
The U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Italy will provide Kyiv with air defense systems, as well as ammunition. ‘They will help protect our cities, civilians and critical infrastructure,’ said the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
The Baltic country, one of the EU’s staunchest opponents of the Kremlin, is strengthening its military capabilities, while NATO increases its presence in the region
The Office of the President of Ukraine affirms that, in a few months, the country must agree with its international allies on the roadmap to negotiating with the invader
The president has avoided commenting on the latest fundamentalist attacks on churches and synagogues, offering no statement on the 20 people killed in Dagestan on Sunday
The leaders of Russia and North Korea finalized a comprehensive partnership document in Pyongyang, which does ‘not exclude developing military-technical cooperation’
Ukrainian soldiers warn that the invading forces are gaining positions through the use of these vehicles, which are more difficult to identify and intercept
Air strikes have left the country with less than half of its electricity generation capacity, leading to daily power outages of 10 hours or more, a situation experts say will deteriorate further ahead of winter