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For both Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, backing off Crimea is hardly an option

The Ukrainian president said the dead included a 10-year-old girl and her mother. The attack left 75 people wounded

The latest model of the attack aircraft, which has been deployed amid heavy fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been upgraded with weapons capable of evading anti-missile defenses

EL PAÍS visits the network of medical stations that mark out the Zaporizhzhia front, where hundreds of wounded soldiers are operated on every day

The meeting will be held in August, and Moscow is not invited to participate

President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the termination of the grain deal earlier this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies, and added that Moscow would share some of those revenues with the ‘poorest nations’

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law moving the holiday, citing ‘the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own tradition’

EL PAÍS accompanied the 35th Ukrainian Marine Artillery Brigade, shortly before its soldiers retook the town on the southern front of the Donetsk province

The declared deployment of the weapons onto the territory of its neighbor and loyal ally marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s nuclear saber-rattling over its invasion of Ukraine

Putin, who is in St. Petersburg for a summit of African leaders, praised the “heroism” with which Russian soldiers repelled Ukrainian attacks

With no gas or water and bombs falling from overhead, the great Russian invasion has aggravated the situation in many towns in eastern Ukraine, where the war has been going on for a decade

The receding waterline following the June destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam brings to light dozens of artifacts

In remarks at the opening of a three-day food summit, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres lamented that there are already negative effects on global wheat and corn prices

Ibrahim Mohamed, an Egyptian-American, is the only foreigner left in a hostel next to the cathedral attacked by Russia on Sunday. Here, backpackers have given way to local refugees during the war

At least one person was killed and 22 others wounded in the attack in the early hours of Sunday

This week, Russia has attacked Ukrainian ports key to sending grain to the world and declared large swaths of the Black Sea dangerous for shipping

Kremlin’s forces are expanding their targets following three days of bombardment of the region’s Black Sea port infrastructure

Igor Strelkov, who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, argued a total mobilization is needed for victory in the current war

A decade ago, 75% of visitors to the Black Sea commercial and tourist capital were Russian. Now the city is the main target of Moscow’s bombs

Russia has targeted Ukrainian critical grain export infrastructure since it vowed “retribution” this week for an attack that damaged a crucial bridge between Russia and the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula

Moscow has launched attacks on grain infrastructure in Odesa after ending export pact and as ‘retaliation’ for latest strike on the Kerch Bridge, a key element in Russia’s supply lines

Messaging app channels linked to Prigozhin’s Wagner private military company said he spoke to his troops at a field camp in Belarus and ran a blurry video purported to show him speaking there

The decision means South Africa will not have to face the dilemma of whether it should act on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Russian leader

Dima, 16, left his hometown on the peninsula occupied by Moscow since 2014 for fear of being forced to fight with Russian troops against Ukrainians

Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone

The largest, SLB, maintained and even grew its business after others eventually departed