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Wavering U.S. support leaves Ukraine undergunned in its conflict with Russia.

Ukrainian soldiers defending Avdiivka, an eastern town at a strategic crossroads, knew last week they would have to give up the fight.

Has Ukraine’s war against Russia turned into a stalemate?

Rustem Umerov, appointed in September as Ukraine’s defence minister, made his first announced visit to troops and top field commanders on the eastern front.

As Ukraine reaps a bumper harvest, Russia is targeting the export routes that run from the ports around Odesa.

BUCHAREST: It didn’t take long after Russia attacked Ukraine for French Colonel Clement Torrent to get his orders: He had six months to build a base for 1,000 soldiers on NATO’s eastern frontier.

Russia’s war against Ukraine is the largest military conflict Europe has seen since World War II, with 15 million people displaced and thousands of civilian casualties. Russia has waged a war of destruction not just against Ukraine, but also against the world. For months Moscow has prevented the export of Ukrainian grain that countries in the Middle East and Africa depend on. Half of the World Food Programme’s grain comes from Ukraine, meaning the Russian blockade has affected international ...