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Russia seeks to intimidate Ukraine with new missile, officials say

By launching a new nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday, Russia was threatening Kyiv and its Western allies with the aim of stopping Ukrainian strikes with Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory — or else.

The attack on the eastern city of Dnipro has spurred fears in the West over a major escalation in the ongoing war and prompted Ukraine to request new air defense capabilities from Washington to help intercept this type of missile.

But analysts and officials in Ukraine and the West, speaking Friday, said that while the attack had been accompanied by a major increase in threatening statements, it was ultimately just more Kremlin bravado.

Moscow aimed to “intimidate those who support Ukraine,” NATO spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah said in an email. “Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter NATO Allies from supporting Ukraine.”

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Russia fires ICBM at Ukrainian city in latest missile escalation, Kyiv says

Russian forces launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Ukraine’s air force said Thursday — an attack that, if confirmed, would represent a dramatic intensification in the missile war between the two nations.

The strike comes two days after Ukrainian forces fired U.S.-made ATACMS into Russia for the first time, following a lifting of restrictions on their use inside Russia by the Biden administration. In addition, Russia reported that British-made Storm Shadow missiles were fired into its territory Wednesday.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in its daily report Thursday that its air defense systems “shot down two U.K.-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles,” but it did not provide any further details.

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U.S. Embassy in Kyiv closes over attack fears after Ukraine strikes Russia

American officials warned Wednesday of a “potential significant air attack” on Kyiv and said the U.S. Embassy in the capital would be closed “out of an abundance of caution” after Ukrainian forces struck an arms depot inside Russia with U.S.-supplied weapons systems.

“Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place,” a statement on the embassy website said. “The U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced.”

The Italian, Greek and Spanish embassies in Kyiv would also be closed temporarily, statements on their websites and media reports said. The Italian Embassy warned of a “possible high-intensity airstrike,” citing the U.S. Embassy statement.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, however, noted over the past 1,000 days of war, the threat of airstrikes “has, unfortunately, been a daily reality.”

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Exclusive: Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy

President Joe Biden has authorized the provision of antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine, two U.S. officials said, a step that will bolster Kyiv’s defenses against advancing Russian troops but has drawn criticism from arms control groups.

The move comes in the wake of the White House’s recent authorization allowing Ukraine to use a powerful long-range missile system to strike inside Russia — part of a sweep of urgent actions the lame-duck Biden administration is taking to help Kyiv’s faltering war effort.

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Ukraine uses U.S.-made ATACMS missiles inside Russia for the first time

Ukraine fired at least six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles against an arsenal in the Bryansk region on Tuesday, the first use of the weapons to hit a target inside Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

A Ukrainian official confirmed the use of the missiles, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The attack comes two days after it was reported that the Biden administration had lifted restrictions on the use of the missiles against targets inside Russia, long a Ukrainian request.

The Russian statement said six missiles were fired but that five were shot down and one was damaged by air defense.

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Russia launches more than 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine

Russia battered Ukraine with more than 200 missiles and drones early Sunday — its largest combined attack in months — sending residents scrambling from their beds to bomb shelters, damaging energy infrastructure and killing at least two people just ahead of the 1,000-day mark since its full-scale invasion of the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia used 120 cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles and 90 drones, including Iranian-made Shaheds, in the attack. Ukrainian forces shot down more than 140 of them, he said.

The attack killed two people in the southern port city of Mykolaiv and wounded six others, including two children, Zelensky said. Later Sunday, a Russian strike in the northeastern city of Sumy killed eight people, including two children, and left nearly 50 injured.

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Russia says U.S. ‘adding fuel to the fire’ by letting Ukraine use ATACMS

Russian officials on Monday furiously condemned President Joe Biden’s decision to permit Ukraine to use American longer-range missiles for limited strikes inside Russia, even as Russian missiles killed at least 19 people inside Ukraine in a pair of attacks.

Though Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has yet to respond to another crossing of his “red lines” by the West, his spokesman said the move added “fuel to the fire” and tensions to the relationship.

“This is a qualitatively new round of tension and a qualitatively new situation in terms of U.S. involvement in this conflict,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in a Monday briefing. “It’s clear that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps to, they’ve said so, to continue to add fuel to the fire and to further provoke the level of tension.”

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Russia wants Kursk back before negotiations. Ukraine isn’t budging.

KYIV — The fight to control some 200 square miles of land in western Russia became even more brutal in recent days as the Kremlin, ahead of possible negotiations with the incoming Trump administration to end the war, appears set on removing Russian land from the equation.

Ukraine has controlled swaths of Russia’s Kursk region since a surprise cross-border incursion in August and — despite having lost around half its initial gains — still maintains a foothold there.

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Russia pushes forward in Ukraine amid talk of negotiations

As Russian forces continue their grinding advance toward the supply hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, a new offensive appears to be nearly underway in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian troops said this week, in what would represent a major escalation along the 600-mile-long front.

A buildup of Russian troops in Ukraine’s southeast comes as uncertainty looms over how a Trump presidency will affect the war and whether the two sides will be pushed to the negotiating table. President-elect Donald Trump has long claimed he will put a quick end to the war, and some in Ukraine fear that would involve Kyiv capitulating to Russia.

Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and urged him not to escalate the war, in a call the Kremlin denies took place. In the week since, however, Russian forces have redoubled their efforts on several fronts.

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Ukraine’s European allies eye once-taboo ‘land-for-peace’ negotiations

BRUSSELS — Among Ukraine’s European allies, there is a quiet but growing shift toward the notion that the war with Russia will end only through negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow involving concessions of Ukrainian territory.

The conversation has taken on greater urgency with the election victory of Donald Trump, who has said he would quickly end the war, without detailing how, and has signaled he could back a deal that keeps some seized territory in Russian hands. In Europe, the closed-door discussions have also been fueled by a bleak battlefield situation, with Ukrainian forces on the defensive and fears of dwindling U.S. funding.

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Ukraine launches biggest drone attack yet on Moscow

Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Moscow and five other Russian regions Sunday, officials here reported, injuring one person and forcing three airports to temporarily halt operations.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems intercepted 84 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol, Kaluga, Kursk and Tula regions. Thirty-four of those drones were shot down over the Moscow region, the ministry said — making it the largest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow since Russia invaded the country more than two years ago.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported drones being shot down shortly after 7 a.m. local time. Andrey Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said in a Telegram post that there had been a “massive drone attack.” A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized with shrapnel injuries and burns to her face, neck and hands and was in intensive care, he said.

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Exclusive: Trump talked to Putin, told Russian leader not to escalate in Ukraine

President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election, said several people familiar with the matter.

During the call, Trump advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, said a person familiar with the call.

The two men discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Trump expressed an interest in follow-up conversations to discuss “the resolution of Ukraine’s war soon,” one of the people said.

The Kremlin denied Monday that President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin last week, saying there are no specific plans for the two leaders to communicate yet.

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Elon Musk joins Trump’s call with Ukraine’s Zelensky

Elon Musk joined a Wednesday call between President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said four people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign that the tech billionaire intends to intertwine himself with Trump’s governing apparatus.

The call began with a conversation between Trump and Zelensky, who remarked how valuable Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service was, said one of the people familiar with their conversation, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation. Trump noted that Musk was with him, and then put him on the call.

“It was very pleasant,” a Ukrainian official said of the exchange. Zelensky “thanked” Musk for the Starlink terminals Ukraine relies on for much wartime communication, the official added.

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Mounting Russian strikes hit Ukraine with casualties across the country

Russia has launched a barrage of attacks over the past 24 hours, pummeling cities in Ukraine’s east, south and center with missiles, glide bombs and waves of drones — the latest onslaught in a deadly aerial campaign that intensified two months ago.

The building where the Estonian ambassador to Ukraine lives in the capital Kyiv was also hit and left burning by a drone.

Overnight, Russian glide bombs struck a building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, wounding more than 20, while drones struck the southern city of Odessa, killing one person and injuring nine, officials said.

The previous day, glide bombs hammered five locations in Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, injuring at least 40 people and killing 10, including a 1-year-old child, officials said Friday.

In total, at least 14 people were killed and close to 100 injured in the attacks.

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Waiting for the North Koreans on the battlefields of the Ukraine war

SUMY, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops fighting inside Russia are bracing for clashes with North Korean forces as officials in Kyiv warn that combat with Russia’s new allies has already begun, marking a dangerous new phase of the war as Donald Trump’s election adds to further uncertainty over Ukraine’s future.

Ukrainian forces are already struggling inside Russia’s Kursk region, where they seized hundreds of square miles in a surprise August offensive but have since lost nearly half that territory. U.S. intelligence agencies have reported that there are now at least 10,000 North Korean troops in the Kursk region, probably to buoy the Russian attempt to retake the final Ukrainian foothold that has irritated Russian President Vladimir Putin even as he tries to brush it off as insignificant.

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‘We have won’: Russians envision new global system with Trump victory

President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback has created an opening for Russia to shatter Western unity on Ukraine and redraw the global power map, according to several influential members of the Russian elite.

Across the corridors of power in Moscow, the win for Trump’s populist campaign arguing that America should focus on its domestic woes over aiding countries like Ukraine was being hailed as a potential victory for Russia’s efforts to carve out its own sphere of influence in the world.

In even broader terms, it was seen as a victory for conservative, isolationist forces supported by Russia against a liberal, Western-dominated global order setting the rules for the entire world that the Kremlin (and its allies) have been seeking to undermine.

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Ukrainians fear Trump will end supply of weapons to fight Russia

Ukrainian officials’ congratulations of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday were fast and effusive — but did little to mask the fears and uncertainty that now hangs over Ukraine’s future.

Many Ukrainian lawmakers recognize that securing the American weapons needed in the war against Russia will require convincing Trump to back a fight that he appears to consider too expensive.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it an “impressive election victory.” He reminded Trump of the “great meeting” they had in September in the United States and talked about “ways to put an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

Andriy Yermak, head the presidential office and Zelensky’s main adviser, echoed his boss’s congratulations, adding that it was “essential that Ukraine has bipartisan support in the U.S.”

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Ukraine says forces clash with North Korean troops for first time

KYIV — Ukrainian troops have clashed with North Korean forces for the first time, according to senior Ukrainian officials — a development that would open a “new page of instability in the world,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, speaking to South Korean television network KBS, said that there were “already contacts” between the two sides, and that Ukrainian officials expected a “more significant number” in the next weeks, which they would “review and analyze.”

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The new season of ‘The Bachelor’ in Ukraine shows the scars of war

Backstage at Ukraine’s adaptation of “The Bachelor,” makeup artists rushed to fix fake lashes and lipstick, while producers hunched over monitors and adjusted camera angles. For the crew of 200 and the show’s 21 participants, the night was going to be a particularly grueling shoot.

The strict wartime curfew and rolling power cuts in the wake of sustained Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid meant they would have to film the show’s climactic rose ceremony all through the night, from dusk until dawn.

As with every aspect of life in Ukraine, the full-scale invasion in 2022 by Russia has transformed the contest, once the most-watched reality TV show in Ukraine. Forty percent of the camera and lights team was drafted to fight. Curfew restricted working hours so that most of the dating scenes have to be filmed during the day instead of at night, and gone are the exotic foreign shooting locations.

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