Russia-Ukraine war
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Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky says Vladimir Putin ‘fears’ Donald Trump
The Ukrainian president admitted the previously top-secret casualty numbers a few hours after Trump released the data as evidence that the war needed to stop.
- by Rob Harris
Latest
US Republicans have a ‘homoerotic obsession’ with Putin, says Johnson
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson told a Sydney audience he had spoken with Donald Trump since the election and believed the president-elect would have “no choice” but to support Ukraine.
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Trade wars
Even before Trump and his tariffs, Europe is in trouble
The timing couldn’t be worse. The fall of the French government and the collapse of Germany’s coalition government have left Europe even more vulnerable to a new trade war with America.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Putin’s planes took away Ukrainian children for ‘Russification’: report
Forcible transfer is a crime against humanity under international law, but the Yale report says a Kremlin-led program took at least 314 children.
- by Anthony Deutsch
How Putin’s long war is destroying the fabric of Russian society
About 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan. The Russian death toll in Ukraine is at least eight times that already - and alcohol-related deaths are spiralling.
- by Melissa Lawford
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Ukraine
After 562 days of brutal torture, a soldier wasn’t prepared for what was waiting at Sydney Airport
A Ukrainian who spent a year and a half enduring “hell on earth” as a prisoner of war is returned to family in Sydney.
- by Kate Geraghty and Michael Ruffles
Analysis
Syrian conflict
Assad’s old allies can’t rescue him this time
The challenges facing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his backers in Russia and Iran are unprecedented.
- by Hassan Hassan
Zelensky says for first time he would give up Ukrainian territory to Russia
There is concern in European capitals Donald Trump could force unfavourable terms on Ukraine, leaving it vulnerable to renewed Russian aggression.
- by Rob Harris
Putin trusts ‘intelligent Trump’ will end Ukraine war
As Moscow pounded Ukraine overnight leaving more than 1 million people without power, the Russian president claimed he was ready for dialogue with the US.
- by Rob Harris
Nuclear attack unlikely, but Russian sabotage campaign looms: US intelligence
The US decision to allow Ukraine to fire deeper into Russia has not raised the nuclear attack risk, but Moscow is likely to expand its hybrid warfare.
- by Erin Banco and Phil Stewart
Russia makes rapid advances in Ukraine, seizing area half the size of London
Vladimir Putin’s army has captured almost 235 square kilometres of territory over the past seven days, a weekly record for 2024.
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly