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The country’s once-mighty defense industry has been ramping up, but the supply needed for Kyiv’s counteroffensive is vast.

Hanoi, long a city of storytellers, has been devastated and reborn time and time again. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai guides readers through the literature that has played a part in that renewal.

Moscow hit Izmail, one of the small ports on the Danube River that are the only outlets for exporting grain by sea since Russia pulled out of the Black Sea deal.

Ukrainian officials have become more open in their view that targets inside Russia are legitimate.

A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T.Q. life, portraying it as a consequence of deviant Western values.

Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, was attacked hours after he warned that the war was “returning to the territory of Russia.”

The economic strength has helped to maintain popular support for Vladimir Putin’s war, but some have warned the state-led spending is threatening the country’s financial stability.

Propaganda is appearing in Minecraft and other popular games and discussion groups as the Kremlin tries to win over new audiences.

The strike was the third in the past week in Moscow, a sign of how no city in Russia or Ukraine appears to be safe from the war. Russia blamed Ukraine, which has yet to comment.

The strike was the third in the past week in Moscow, a sign of how no city in Russia or Ukraine appears to be safe from the war. Russia blamed Ukraine, which has yet to comment.