Month: February 2022

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger Zelenskyy from going abroad to study in Israel. Instead, Zelenskyy studied law at home. Upon graduation, he found a new home in movie acting and comedy — rocketing in […]

Written by: Andrew E. Kramer, Marc Santora, Valerie Hopkins and Michael Schwirtz The Ukrainian defence forces, outmanned and outgunned, waged a ferocious resistance to the Russian invasion, battling to keep control of the capital, Kyiv, and other cities around the country. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, posted a video on […]

Written by Clifford Krauss It may be time to pluck that old cardigan out of the closet. President Jimmy Carter wore one as he delivered a televised address in February 1977 when he told Americans the country had reason to be worried about its habitual reliance on foreign oil — […]

China is the only friend that might help Russia blunt the impact of economic sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but President Xi Jinping’s government is giving no sign it might be willing to risk its own access to US and European markets by doing too much. Even if Beijing […]

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said he spoke with his US counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on the phone on Saturday and agreed they must respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine properly to prevent it from becoming “a wrong lesson” because of its potential influence in Asia and […]

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis. Senior administration officials told reporters on Friday that the Treasury Department planned to issue a […]

Written by Valerie Hopkins As Russian missiles bombarded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed to go missing. Italy’s prime minister even told his own Parliament, in a tremulous voice, that Zelenskyy had missed a planned call with him. Later, as Russian forces announced they had cut […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday told the leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) that the UK will “imminently” impose direct sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Addressing a virtual meeting of NATO leaders, Johnson said his government […]