Assessments that Ukraine has reached a turning point in the conflict with Russia may well prove premature. But the towering dome of black smoke that hung over Moscow this week after a Ukrainian drone onslaught showed that Kyiv still has plenty of cards to play, no matter President Trump’s earlier appraisal of its prospects in…
The Trump administration has transferred about $350 million from the Secret Service to White House security upgrades as President Trump builds a luxury ballroom on the grounds with a secure military bunker underneath. Two transfers, of $340.8 million and $10.75 million, were made last week, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The Washington…
More than a week after Russia warned of an attack on Kyiv that would be so big that diplomats and other foreigners should flee, Moscow finally struck early on Tuesday. Its forces launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at the capital and other cities in Ukraine, killing at least 16 people, the Ukrainian…
Europeans, adrift between Russia and the United States, are in a persistent state of anxiety — about the war in Ukraine, hostility from President Trump, threats from Moscow and their own weak economies, worsened by the impact of the war in Iran. The Russian drone that hit a Romanian apartment building on Friday morning, wounding…
A Russian attack drone hit an apartment building in eastern Romania early on Friday, according to the authorities, drawing swift and sharp condemnation from NATO and the European Union. The episode comes amid heightened fears that Russia might seek to expand the war beyond Ukraine to target a member of the NATO security alliance. Ukraine…
For the second time in three days, American forces conducted what a U.S. official said on Wednesday were self-defense strikes in southern Iran. The United States knocked down four one-way attack drones that the official said Iran launched over the Strait of Hormuz. The drones, according to the official, threatened U.S. forces in the region…
There seemed nothing to fear on a sunny, windswept day last month on the banks of the Danube River, not far from the Ukrainian border. Frequent alerts about possible Russian drone attacks had proved more annoying than alarming for residents. Besides, “We are in NATO,” said Dumitru Cerneaga, a 74-year-old Romanian who was strolling by…
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lee delivered parcels in Taiwan for a living, hung out with friends or played video games after work. He knew of Ukraine only from S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a game set in the Chernobyl nuclear zone. Now, he is serving in the Ukrainian Army on the battlefield and hoping that…
A drone slammed into a high-rise apartment building a few miles from the Kremlin on Monday, a rare attack on Moscow that came as Ukraine has expanded its long-range strikes inside Russia. The breach of air defenses in the Russian capital occurred five days before the annual Victory Day parade, a major event on Red…
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and northern Israel are contending with a new threat from Hezbollah militants: exploding drones designed to evade electronic jamming. Hezbollah has been attacking with the deadly drones in recent weeks, and Israel is still trying to figure out how to defend against them, according to several Israeli military officials and…
