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2 hours ago22:45 Olivia Stringer US will not send long range missiles to UkraineThe US will not be sending long-range rockets "for use outside the battlefield" in Ukraine, US press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said.  2 hours ago22:10 Olivia Stringer Zelensky says Ukraine's military forces have had some successesUkraine's military has…

Image A Ukrainian soldier in a trench on the front lines in the Donetsk region on Sunday.Credit...Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York TimesKRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldiers, seeking to spread Russian forces thin, launched a counteroffensive on Sunday in Kherson, the key southern city that Moscow considered so securely under…

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s embattled president, criticized Conor McGregor during a meeting with senior Irish politicians. During a 45-minute meeting with Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl and Seanad Cathaoirleach Mark Daly in Kyiv last weekend, Zelensky informed the Irish delegation that he was once a fan of the former two-division UFC…

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian President Vladimir Putin told his German and French counterparts that Moscow was open to resuming negotiations with Ukraine, but that the West’s supply of weapons to the Kyiv government could exacerbate the crisis, the Kremlin said Saturday. The comments came a day after U.S. officials signaled that the…

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ROME—Remember back to Feb. 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” in Ukraine quickly escalated into a bloodbath? It was the first full-scale invasion in Europe since the end of World War II, and the European Union scrambled to offer support and promises that are increasingly looking like they…

It’s easy to see the war in Ukraine as a sign of an inescapably violent world. But if the future looks bleak, perhaps that’s because we focus on the conflicts that happen and overlook the gravitational pull of peace. An example came on March 9, two weeks into the Russian…

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A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantum to classical transition. "By applying balanced energy gain and loss to an open quantum system, we found a way to overcome a previously held…

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine —  Russia shelled more than 40 towns and villages in the Donbas region, Ukrainian officials said Thursday, as Moscow intensified attacks in Ukraine’s industrial heartland and attempted to encircle key eastern cities. Now in its fourth month, Russia’s war on its neighbor has increasingly zeroed in on efforts to…