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WASHINGTON – After months of delays that have sapped the strength of Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, a multibillion-dollar aid bill may soon be headed toward passage by the U.S. Congress, albeit with substantial challenges still in its path. Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, told Fox News on March...

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the two-year mark, Russian forces are making small advances in some locations along the 745-mile front as President Vladimir Putin throws more and more men into battle. Since New Year’s, Russian forces have captured 39 square miles in eastern and southern Ukraine, according to the Washing­ton-based Institute for...

WASHINGTON – Three-hundred-twenty-five, 200, 150, 125. The downward trend is clear. The numbers represent the millions of dollars in military aid distributed to Ukraine during the past four U.S. weapon drawdown rounds from September 21 through November 3. October’s total of $350 million was the lowest monthly figure in nearly a year and a half....

The invasion of Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas has shattered the illusion of stability in the Middle East and triggered a war that could reshape great-power influence in the region and beyond. How it all shakes out will depend in large part on the length and course of the war, including whether another...

WASHINGTON – When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. senators at the Capitol on September 21 during a blitz visit to Washington to rally support for more aid, he reportedly told them that without U.S. backing his nation would lose its potentially existential battle against the Russian invasion. Less than two weeks later, a...

WASHINGTON – When Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the November 2020 presidential contest, it ended a tense election struggle in which a country that had never played more than a bit part in U.S. politics – Ukraine – suddenly had a substantial role. Kyiv had been thrust into the U.S. political spotlight after...

The fate of the massive nuclear power plant in the crosshairs of Europe’s largest war in decades has made for worrisome headlines since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly 18 months ago. As fighting intensifies not far from the plant, fears of a disaster have not abated. On August 10, the main power...

When Russia’s central bank surprised economists on July 21 by hiking interest rates a full percentage point, double the expected increase, it should have buoyed the ruble – which had been on a downward trajectory since December. Yet the Russian currency continued to tumble against the U.S. dollar the following three weeks, breaching the important...

Moscow’s business district, dominated by modern glass-and-steel towers, was struck twice this week by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that left top-story windows damaged and citizens shaken, but did not result in fatalities. Moscow pinned the blame on Kyiv, which has historically denied responsibility for attacks inside Russia. There have now been at least six drone...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the 62-year-old former petty criminal-turned-restauranteur-billionaire warlord, has tackled many difficult assignments over the years as a Kremlin fixer: from propping up kleptocratic, authoritarian African rulers to sacking the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Now, following an aborted mutiny that challenged Russia’s military and handed President Vladimir Putin a major political crisis, Mr. Prigozhin stands...

WASHINGTON – More than 13 months after the United States and its allies blocked Russia from accessing an estimated $300 billion in central bank assets to punish the Kremlin for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Washington and Brussels are still struggling with the questions of whether and how to use the enormous pile of frozen...

Talk of a crackdown on corruption and a new effort to cut powerful tycoons down to size seems to sweep through Ukraine every year. But the prospects for substantive change tend to melt away like snow in springtime, leaving a barren landscape that’s all too familiar to reform advocates both inside and outside the country....