Ukraine Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine will meet in Istanbul today to seek agreement on the release of Ukrainian grain supplies to hungry countries. With Russia still blockading Black Sea ports, …

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Ukraine Pres. Putin signed a decree offering expedited Russian citizenship to any Ukrainian, in a bid to expand pro-Russian sympathies throughout Ukraine (something critics call “passportization”).Ru …

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Coming Up This WeekPres. Biden is meeting Mexican president AMLO in Washington tomorrow, and they plan to talk about migration.Biden is also visiting the Middle East this week, with stops in Israel an …

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Ukraine Pres. Putin addressed his parliament today, and told them that Russia’s war in Ukraine had yet to start “in earnest.” He also warned that the window for negotiating closes further as the war …

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Ukraine The NYT had a good article on the foreign veterans fighting in Ukraine - and how different this war is from the ones they've fought before. See below.Russia WNBA star Brittney Griner wrote t …

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Ukraine Having captured the last major Ukrainian-held city in Luhansk, Russian forces escalated their shelling of Bakhmut, which the NYT called “an apparent prelude to an offensive into the province …

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