Vladímir Putin

The use of the Danube and Constanta ports in Romania, coupled with the success of securing the Odesa-Bosphorus route, has boosted Ukrainian grain exports to near pre-war levels

Turkey claims to have coordinated the exchange of 24 prisoners, plus two minors, from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus. Turkish intelligence sources told EL PAÍS that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entrusted his secret service chief to personally handle the case

The president of Ukraine wants to organize conferences on energy and food security, and the return of prisoners of war and deported minors, between July and September. Moscow is refusing to participate in a second round of dialogue

After talking about ‘Vice President Trump’ and introducing Ukraine’s Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin,’ the president insists he is still the ‘best qualified person’ to defeat his Republican rival. But more Democrats are asking him to step aside

The U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Italy will provide Kyiv with air defense systems, as well as ammunition. ‘They will help protect our cities, civilians and critical infrastructure,’ said the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

The Baltic country, one of the EU’s staunchest opponents of the Kremlin, is strengthening its military capabilities, while NATO increases its presence in the region

The Office of the President of Ukraine affirms that, in a few months, the country must agree with its international allies on the roadmap to negotiating with the invader

The president has avoided commenting on the latest fundamentalist attacks on churches and synagogues, offering no statement on the 20 people killed in Dagestan on Sunday

The Ukrainian army believes that this railway network will enter into service this year and will play a key role in the invader’s military logistics

Kyiv has documented the deportation of thousands of minors who are stripped of their identity and nationality and handed over to Russian families

The leaders of Russia and North Korea finalized a comprehensive partnership document in Pyongyang, which does ‘not exclude developing military-technical cooperation’

Ukrainian soldiers warn that the invading forces are gaining positions through the use of these vehicles, which are more difficult to identify and intercept

For 10 years, Washington had prohibited its war materiel from being sent to this unit, as it considered it an extreme right movement

Air strikes have left the country with less than half of its electricity generation capacity, leading to daily power outages of 10 hours or more, a situation experts say will deteriorate further ahead of winter

The Ukrainian leader has visited over 10 countries so far ahead of the June 16 peace summit in Switzerland, which U.S. President Joe Biden will not attend

The 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, with very few surviving veterans, takes place at a time when transatlantic unity is in danger

The record-holding world chess champion, who lives in New York and is included on the Putin government’s list of ‘terrorists and extremists,’ maintains that the war must follow a ‘strategy that consists of Ukraine winning and Russia losing’

The United States and European powers have lifted the veto on NATO-supplied weapons being used against military targets in Russia’s border regions

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president of the European Council says he anticipates Russian interference in the European elections but plays down polls forecasting the rise of the extreme right

After the Russian invasion, the most precious pieces were evacuated from Kyiv to secret locations on trains that ran along the front lines under missile fire

After the Kremlin’s offensive in Kharkiv, Kyiv’s diplomatic efforts are focused on Washington and Europe authorizing the use of their artillery and missiles to hit targets on the other side of the border

The jurist denounces that there has been ‘external pressure’ on the International Criminal Court to avoid an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel itself has resurrected support for Palestinian self-determination through its actions in the Strip, in one of its biggest diplomatic setbacks at a time when its reputation is increasingly in decline

EL PAÍS accompanies a Ukrainian police special operations unit in a civilian evacuation operation in a town north of Kharkiv besieged by Russian troops

Russia is pressing its advantage in troops, munitions and air dominance in several towns in the provinces of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv to expand the front line and achieve strategic victories this summer