McDonald’s to reopen in Ukraine to create a small sense of ‘normalcy’
More than a month after Ukraine’s foreign minister urged McDonald’s to jump-start its operations in the battle-scarred country, the fast-food giant announced that it will begin to reopen some of its 109 restaurants, despite the ongoing war and serious disruptions to the company’s supply chain.
In a company memo, Paul Pomroy, corporate senior vice president of international operated markets, said McDonald’s would reopen restaurants in Kyiv, the capital, and in western Ukraine, where “other businesses have safely reopened.”
“Over the next few months, we will begin working with suppliers to get product to restaurants, making the physical properties ready to serve customers, bringing restaurant teams and employees back on-site, and implementing enhanced procedures and protocols to support the safety of our people and customers,” Pomroy wrote in the memo.
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More than a month after Ukraine’s foreign minister urged McDonald’s to jump-start its operations in the battle-scarred country, the fast-food giant announced that it will begin to reopen some of its 109 restaurants, despite the ongoing war and serious disruptions to the company’s supply chain.
In a company memo, Paul Pomroy, corporate senior vice president of international operated markets, said McDonald’s would reopen restaurants in Kyiv, the capital, and in western Ukraine, where “other businesses have safely reopened.”
“Over the next few months, we will begin working with suppliers to get product to restaurants, making the physical properties ready to serve customers, bringing restaurant teams and employees back on-site, and implementing enhanced procedures and protocols to support the safety of our people and customers,” Pomroy wrote in the memo.
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On the Kherson front lines, little sign of a Ukrainian offensive
MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — On the front line in southeast Ukraine, there is little sign that a major counteroffensive is brewing.
For weeks, Western intelligence and military analysts have predicted that a Ukrainian campaign to retake the strategic port city of Kherson and surrounding territory is imminent. But in trenches less than a mile from Russia’s positions in the area, Ukrainian soldiers hunker down from an escalating onslaught of artillery, with little ability to advance.
“It’s to our left side, our right side, over our heads,” said Yuri, a 45-year-old soldier with the Ukrainian military’s 63rd Mechanized Brigade said of the incoming fire, which has intensified over the past week. At night, Russian forces make reconnaissance missions that probe the tenuously held farmland. “It’s a more tense situation,” he said.
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MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — On the front line in southeast Ukraine, there is little sign that a major counteroffensive is brewing.
For weeks, Western intelligence and military analysts have predicted that a Ukrainian campaign to retake the strategic port city of Kherson and surrounding territory is imminent. But in trenches less than a mile from Russia’s positions in the area, Ukrainian soldiers hunker down from an escalating onslaught of artillery, with little ability to advance.
“It’s to our left side, our right side, over our heads,” said Yuri, a 45-year-old soldier with the Ukrainian military’s 63rd Mechanized Brigade said of the incoming fire, which has intensified over the past week. At night, Russian forces make reconnaissance missions that probe the tenuously held farmland. “It’s a more tense situation,” he said.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine.
- The United Nations appealed for a demilitarized zone to protect a nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, and a ship will carry Ukrainian grain to hunger-hit countries in the Horn of Africa.
- Russia’s U.N. envoy said the IAEA may visit the nuclear plant soon but shifted the blame on others for preventing access to the facility, which sits in a part of Ukraine that Russian forces control.
- The Brave Commander, a cargo vessel chartered by the United Nations, will export more than 23,000 metric tons of grain to Ethiopia through the port of Djibouti.
- Two more ships left Black Sea ports Friday under the deal, one of them carrying 3,000 metric tons of wheat, according to the Defense Ministry in Turkey, which helped broker the deal with U.N. help.
- A Russian journalist who protested the Ukraine war has been put under house arrest until Oct. 9.
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- The United Nations appealed for a demilitarized zone to protect a nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, and a ship will carry Ukrainian grain to hunger-hit countries in the Horn of Africa.
- Russia’s U.N. envoy said the IAEA may visit the nuclear plant soon but shifted the blame on others for preventing access to the facility, which sits in a part of Ukraine that Russian forces control.
- The Brave Commander, a cargo vessel chartered by the United Nations, will export more than 23,000 metric tons of grain to Ethiopia through the port of Djibouti.
- Two more ships left Black Sea ports Friday under the deal, one of them carrying 3,000 metric tons of wheat, according to the Defense Ministry in Turkey, which helped broker the deal with U.N. help.
- A Russian journalist who protested the Ukraine war has been put under house arrest until Oct. 9.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- The Kremlin has condemned calls to ban Russian travelers after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Washington Post he wants all Russians to be denied visas to Western countries in a bid to deter Moscow from annexing Ukrainian territory. In a nightly address, the Ukrainian president again told E.U. leaders to impose a ban, which would affect tourists, business executives, students and others.
- Russian strikes pounded the city of Nikopol overnight, a regional official said. He said there were no casualties, while reporting damage to homes and a kindergarten in a region near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- The Pentagon said it does not know what weapons were used in an attack on a Russian air base in Crimea this week. A military official told reporters the U.S. found that equipment which was damaged in the explosions includes “a number of Russian aircraft, fighters, fighter bombers [and] surveillance aircraft.”
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- The Kremlin has condemned calls to ban Russian travelers after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Washington Post he wants all Russians to be denied visas to Western countries in a bid to deter Moscow from annexing Ukrainian territory. In a nightly address, the Ukrainian president again told E.U. leaders to impose a ban, which would affect tourists, business executives, students and others.
- Russian strikes pounded the city of Nikopol overnight, a regional official said. He said there were no casualties, while reporting damage to homes and a kindergarten in a region near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- The Pentagon said it does not know what weapons were used in an attack on a Russian air base in Crimea this week. A military official told reporters the U.S. found that equipment which was damaged in the explosions includes “a number of Russian aircraft, fighters, fighter bombers [and] surveillance aircraft.”
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Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- Russian forces in the Kherson area are retreating to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River after Ukrainian forces destroyed the bridge over Nova Kakhovka Dam, according to the Mykolayiv regional governor, Vitaliy Kim.
- The Kremlin has condemned calls to ban all Russian travelers after Zelensky told The Washington Post he wants Western countries to deny visas to Russians in a bid to deter Moscow from annexing Ukrainian territory.
- Russian strikes hit the city of Nikopol, a regional official said overnight. He reported damage to homes and a kindergarten in the region near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
More live updates here.
- Russian forces in the Kherson area are retreating to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River after Ukrainian forces destroyed the bridge over Nova Kakhovka Dam, according to the Mykolayiv regional governor, Vitaliy Kim.
- The Kremlin has condemned calls to ban all Russian travelers after Zelensky told The Washington Post he wants Western countries to deny visas to Russians in a bid to deter Moscow from annexing Ukrainian territory.
- Russian strikes hit the city of Nikopol, a regional official said overnight. He reported damage to homes and a kindergarten in the region near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- Ukrainian forces will target Russian soldiers who shoot at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant or shoot from the facility, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address Saturday, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of additional shelling in the area. He said the Russian soldiers are becoming a “special target.”
- Zelensky said Russian forces are “trying to intimidate” residents near the plant, and he added that soldiers are hiding behind the plant to fire at the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets. Both faced additional attacks overnight, according to the regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk, who reported damage but no casualties.
- A state-owned TV network run by the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian shelling at a hydropower plant damaged three of the six turbines there, which they said could affect the cooling of nuclear reactors at Zaporizhzhia. The reports could not be independently verified.
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- Ukrainian forces will target Russian soldiers who shoot at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant or shoot from the facility, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address Saturday, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of additional shelling in the area. He said the Russian soldiers are becoming a “special target.”
- Zelensky said Russian forces are “trying to intimidate” residents near the plant, and he added that soldiers are hiding behind the plant to fire at the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets. Both faced additional attacks overnight, according to the regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk, who reported damage but no casualties.
- A state-owned TV network run by the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian shelling at a hydropower plant damaged three of the six turbines there, which they said could affect the cooling of nuclear reactors at Zaporizhzhia. The reports could not be independently verified.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- Forty-two countries are calling on Russia to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to a statement by the European Union dated Friday and posted Sunday. The statement says Russia’s military aggression at and near the plant poses a threat to nuclear safety.
- The latest round of shelling near the plant killed one employee and injured two others, Ukraine’s nuclear power regulator said on Telegram. The city of Enerhodar was hit at least six times, the regulator said, further shaking the enclave where many nuclear power plant employees live.
- Ukrainian troops struck a Wagner Group base in Popasna on Sunday, the regional governor said early Monday. Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said in a Telegram post that members of the mercenary group died in the attack but that the death count was still being clarified.
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- Forty-two countries are calling on Russia to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to a statement by the European Union dated Friday and posted Sunday. The statement says Russia’s military aggression at and near the plant poses a threat to nuclear safety.
- The latest round of shelling near the plant killed one employee and injured two others, Ukraine’s nuclear power regulator said on Telegram. The city of Enerhodar was hit at least six times, the regulator said, further shaking the enclave where many nuclear power plant employees live.
- Ukrainian troops struck a Wagner Group base in Popasna on Sunday, the regional governor said early Monday. Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said in a Telegram post that members of the mercenary group died in the attack but that the death count was still being clarified.
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At least six explosions hit Crimea air base in nearly an hour
Shortly before 3:20 p.m. on Aug. 9, Nikolay Abbasov, a resident of Saki, near Crimea’s western Black Sea coast, heard an explosion. Walking to his window, he filmed a cloud of smoke rising in the distance.
At almost the same moment, a Russian influencer, Diana Andreeva, was enjoying the beach in nearby Novofedorivka when she turned her camera to capture the cloud, which was rising from Saki air base, home to the Russian Navy’s 43rd Independent Naval Attack Aviation Regiment.
About 50 minutes later, both would capture two massive explosions at the base, capping an alleged attack claimed by Ukraine that killed at least one person and injured 13 others, according to Russian officials.
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Shortly before 3:20 p.m. on Aug. 9, Nikolay Abbasov, a resident of Saki, near Crimea’s western Black Sea coast, heard an explosion. Walking to his window, he filmed a cloud of smoke rising in the distance.
At almost the same moment, a Russian influencer, Diana Andreeva, was enjoying the beach in nearby Novofedorivka when she turned her camera to capture the cloud, which was rising from Saki air base, home to the Russian Navy’s 43rd Independent Naval Attack Aviation Regiment.
About 50 minutes later, both would capture two massive explosions at the base, capping an alleged attack claimed by Ukraine that killed at least one person and injured 13 others, according to Russian officials.
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U.S. allies most vulnerable to Russia press for more troops, weapons
As the United States and NATO inject personnel and equipment into Eastern Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, vulnerable allies such as Latvia are scrambling to scale up their defenses for fear they will be next to come under attack.
Like Ukraine, which is not a NATO member but considered a close partner of the alliance, the countries closest to Russia say they are desperate for more Western military aid. It is essential to arm themselves as well as Ukraine, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said during a visit from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this month, because there is a real risk the war will “come to our borders.”
The Biden administration has vowed to boost side-by-side exercises in the region to hone proficiency in air-defense capability and other vital combat skills, not only in Latvia but across the Baltics and in other nations within easy striking distance of Russian forces.
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As the United States and NATO inject personnel and equipment into Eastern Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, vulnerable allies such as Latvia are scrambling to scale up their defenses for fear they will be next to come under attack.
Like Ukraine, which is not a NATO member but considered a close partner of the alliance, the countries closest to Russia say they are desperate for more Western military aid. It is essential to arm themselves as well as Ukraine, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said during a visit from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this month, because there is a real risk the war will “come to our borders.”
The Biden administration has vowed to boost side-by-side exercises in the region to hone proficiency in air-defense capability and other vital combat skills, not only in Latvia but across the Baltics and in other nations within easy striking distance of Russian forces.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine.
- WNBA star Brittney Griner has appealed the harsh sentence she received from a Russian court earlier this month on drug charges.
- Vladimir Putin said Moscow is ready to arm its allies with modern, combat-tested weapons.
- Forty-two countries are calling on Russia to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to a statement by the European Union dated Friday and posted Sunday.
- Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the two countries will expand their bilateral relations, North Korean state media reported Monday.
- Ukrainian troops struck a Wagner Group base in Popasna on Sunday, the regional governor said early Monday.
- The latest round of shelling near the plant killed one employee and injured two others, Ukraine’s nuclear power regulator said on Telegram.
More live updates here.
- WNBA star Brittney Griner has appealed the harsh sentence she received from a Russian court earlier this month on drug charges.
- Vladimir Putin said Moscow is ready to arm its allies with modern, combat-tested weapons.
- Forty-two countries are calling on Russia to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to a statement by the European Union dated Friday and posted Sunday.
- Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the two countries will expand their bilateral relations, North Korean state media reported Monday.
- Ukrainian troops struck a Wagner Group base in Popasna on Sunday, the regional governor said early Monday.
- The latest round of shelling near the plant killed one employee and injured two others, Ukraine’s nuclear power regulator said on Telegram.
More live updates here.
Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- A top Ukrainian official pointed to more “explosions” in occupied Crimea as local Russian officials rushed to the scene to investigate.
- An ammunition depot was on fire early Tuesday, local authorities confirmed as they pledged to investigate. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the fire caused ammunition stored in the depot to detonate, according to state news outlet RIA Novosti.
- The United Nations and Russia discussed safety around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- Three foreign nationals could face the death penalty in eastern Ukraine after a court in the separatist Donetsk region charged them Monday with being mercenaries, the Russian state media outlet Tass reported.
- Russia’s Black Sea fleet is “struggling” to effectively control the waters off Crimea’s coast following Russian forces’ withdrawal from Snake Island and the sinking of Russia’s flagship, the Moskva, in April, the British Defense Ministry said.
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- A top Ukrainian official pointed to more “explosions” in occupied Crimea as local Russian officials rushed to the scene to investigate.
- An ammunition depot was on fire early Tuesday, local authorities confirmed as they pledged to investigate. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the fire caused ammunition stored in the depot to detonate, according to state news outlet RIA Novosti.
- The United Nations and Russia discussed safety around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
- Three foreign nationals could face the death penalty in eastern Ukraine after a court in the separatist Donetsk region charged them Monday with being mercenaries, the Russian state media outlet Tass reported.
- Russia’s Black Sea fleet is “struggling” to effectively control the waters off Crimea’s coast following Russian forces’ withdrawal from Snake Island and the sinking of Russia’s flagship, the Moskva, in April, the British Defense Ministry said.
More live updates here.
A U.S.-Russia nuclear war could starve 5 billion to death, study says
Some two-thirds of the world could starve to death in the event of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States, according to a Rutgers University-led study published Monday. Nuclear conflict would lead to “catastrophic” disruptions in food supplies, as sun-blocking soot and ash wilt crops around the world, researchers wrote in the peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food.
Even a smaller-scale nuclear war between Pakistan and India would devastate food supplies, slash global production by 7 percent within five years and kill up to 2.5 billion people. Food insecurity in these cases would be deadlier than the nuclear blasts, the study predicts.
“The data tell us one thing: We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening,” climate scientist Alan Robock, co-author of the study, said in a statement.
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Some two-thirds of the world could starve to death in the event of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States, according to a Rutgers University-led study published Monday. Nuclear conflict would lead to “catastrophic” disruptions in food supplies, as sun-blocking soot and ash wilt crops around the world, researchers wrote in the peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food.
Even a smaller-scale nuclear war between Pakistan and India would devastate food supplies, slash global production by 7 percent within five years and kill up to 2.5 billion people. Food insecurity in these cases would be deadlier than the nuclear blasts, the study predicts.
“The data tell us one thing: We must prevent a nuclear war from ever happening,” climate scientist Alan Robock, co-author of the study, said in a statement.
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Crimea ammunition depot blast is work of Ukraine special forces, official says
KYIV, Ukraine — Two people were reported injured and infrastructure severely damaged early Tuesday when a major blast rocked an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea in what the Kremlin called an “act of sabotage.”
A senior Ukrainian government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said the explosions were the work of Ukrainian special forces operating deep behind enemy lines — the same forces believed responsible for a powerful attack against a Russian air base in western Crimea last week that signaled a shift in Ukraine’s strategic capabilities.
Russian media also reported Tuesday that Crimean authorities were investigating the possibility of a second attack against a different ammunition depot in south-central Crimea.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Two people were reported injured and infrastructure severely damaged early Tuesday when a major blast rocked an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea in what the Kremlin called an “act of sabotage.”
A senior Ukrainian government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said the explosions were the work of Ukrainian special forces operating deep behind enemy lines — the same forces believed responsible for a powerful attack against a Russian air base in western Crimea last week that signaled a shift in Ukraine’s strategic capabilities.
Russian media also reported Tuesday that Crimean authorities were investigating the possibility of a second attack against a different ammunition depot in south-central Crimea.
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Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion
On a sunny October morning, the nation’s top intelligence, military and diplomatic leaders filed into the Oval Office for an urgent meeting with President Biden. They arrived bearing a highly classified intelligence analysis, compiled from newly obtained satellite images, intercepted communications and human sources, that amounted to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war plans for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For months, Biden administration officials watched as Putin massed tens of thousands of troops and lined up tanks and missiles along Ukraine’s borders. As summer waned, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, focused on the increasing volume of intelligence related to Russia and Ukraine. He set up the Oval Office meeting after his own thinking had gone from uncertainty about Russia’s intentions, to concern he was being too skeptical about the prospects of military action, to alarm.
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On a sunny October morning, the nation’s top intelligence, military and diplomatic leaders filed into the Oval Office for an urgent meeting with President Biden. They arrived bearing a highly classified intelligence analysis, compiled from newly obtained satellite images, intercepted communications and human sources, that amounted to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war plans for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
For months, Biden administration officials watched as Putin massed tens of thousands of troops and lined up tanks and missiles along Ukraine’s borders. As summer waned, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, focused on the increasing volume of intelligence related to Russia and Ukraine. He set up the Oval Office meeting after his own thinking had gone from uncertainty about Russia’s intentions, to concern he was being too skeptical about the prospects of military action, to alarm.
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Here is the latest from Ukraine.
- A blast near Dzhankoi in Russian-occupied Crimea was “demilitarization in action,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted, without openly claiming responsibility for the explosion.
- Zelensky, in an interview with The Post, said that “one can’t wage war with drones,” as he defended his government’s response to U.S. intelligence warnings of a possible Russian invasion.
- Kyiv said supporting powers were not specific enough in their warnings, and Zelensky himself suspected that some Western officials wanted him to flee so they could negotiate a settlement with Moscow over Ukraine, The Post found as part of its months-long examination of the road to war in Ukraine.
- The United Nations and Russia discussed safety around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
More live updates here.
- A blast near Dzhankoi in Russian-occupied Crimea was “demilitarization in action,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted, without openly claiming responsibility for the explosion.
- Zelensky, in an interview with The Post, said that “one can’t wage war with drones,” as he defended his government’s response to U.S. intelligence warnings of a possible Russian invasion.
- Kyiv said supporting powers were not specific enough in their warnings, and Zelensky himself suspected that some Western officials wanted him to flee so they could negotiate a settlement with Moscow over Ukraine, The Post found as part of its months-long examination of the road to war in Ukraine.
- The United Nations and Russia discussed safety around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
More live updates here.
Here is the latest from Ukraine:
- Ukraine’s nuclear power agency accused Russia of a cyberattack on its website, which it said had failed. Energoatom said Tuesday night that the hacking efforts did not “significantly affect” the company’s official site.
- U.N. chief António Guterres will meet Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on Thursday. The secretary general is also set to visit a Black Sea port shipping grain from Ukraine under a U.N.-backed deal.
- Ukrainian forces reportedly struck Russian targets in Crimea for the second time in days. The occupied peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, is a military supply hub for Russia’s forces and a popular destination for its tourists.
- Russia has “no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” and its arsenal exists mainly to “deter a nuclear attack,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday at a conference in Moscow.
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- Ukraine’s nuclear power agency accused Russia of a cyberattack on its website, which it said had failed. Energoatom said Tuesday night that the hacking efforts did not “significantly affect” the company’s official site.
- U.N. chief António Guterres will meet Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on Thursday. The secretary general is also set to visit a Black Sea port shipping grain from Ukraine under a U.N.-backed deal.
- Ukrainian forces reportedly struck Russian targets in Crimea for the second time in days. The occupied peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, is a military supply hub for Russia’s forces and a popular destination for its tourists.
- Russia has “no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” and its arsenal exists mainly to “deter a nuclear attack,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday at a conference in Moscow.
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An interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
KYIV, Ukraine — Over the past six months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become an inspiring wartime leader and champion of his country. During an hour-long, wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post at the presidential office, where hallways are kept dark and are lined with sandbags to protect against Russian attack, Zelensky discussed U.S. warnings about Russia preparing to launch a full-scale invasion — and if he believed them.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Over the past six months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become an inspiring wartime leader and champion of his country. During an hour-long, wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post at the presidential office, where hallways are kept dark and are lined with sandbags to protect against Russian attack, Zelensky discussed U.S. warnings about Russia preparing to launch a full-scale invasion — and if he believed them.
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