Russia-Ukraine war
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Ukraine
Ukrainians advance 25 kilometres into Russian territory as fire breaks out at nuclear plant
Volodymyr Zelensky has indirectly acknowledged Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia, saying his country must “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”
- by Lidia Kelly
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‘Slap in the face’ for Putin: Ukraine pushes deeper into Russia as Moscow sends reinforcements
A Russian military blog describes Ukrainian units entering village after village to stage ambushes against arriving Russian reinforcements.
- by Mark Trevelyan
Putin stunned as Russia battles Ukrainian troops for third day after shock incursion
The incursion has shocked Russia, nearly two-and-a-half years since President Vladimir Putin sent his army into Ukraine in February 2022.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
Ukraine pierces Russian border in one of largest incursions of war
Russian military bloggers depicted the situation in Kursk region as more serious than the official accounts, with some suggesting that Ukraine had opened a new front.
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
Nation’s biggest power plant burns most coal since 2019
The Eraring power station’s coal output has hit a five-year-high, highlighting the difficulties of weaning the grid off the polluting fossil fuel.
- by Nick Toscano
Analysis
China relations
Australia refuses to match allies sanctioning China over support for Russian war
The UK, US and the EU are among those sanctioning Chinese companies accused of helping Russia wreak havoc in Ukraine. The Albanese government is an outlier.
- by Lisa Visentin
Australia responds to Zelensky’s SOS with $250m in military aid
After a hospital bombing, the Ukrainian leader put out an urgent call for help before Donald Trump’s possible re-election in the US in November.
- by Farrah Tomazin
NATO launches diplomatic attack on China over support for Russia’s war
NATO leaders issued the alliance’s strongest-ever language calling out China’s military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- by Donato Paolo Mancini and Peter Martin
Ukrainians salvage what they can from key children’s hospital after Russian strike
As rescue workers finished sifting through the rubble, doctors and nurses raced to help the scores of critically ill children who now must find care elsewhere.
- by Marc Santora and Megan Specia
US officials say Russia unlikely to take much more Ukrainian territory
Russia’s problems represent a significant change in the dynamic of the war, which had favoured Moscow in recent months.
- by Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
Editorial
Editorial
Children in a cancer hospital are not soldiers of war
The Russian missile attack on a Kyiv paediatric hospital has brought worldwide condemnation yet Russia blamed Ukraine air defences.
- The Herald's View