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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps

    A visual guide to the war

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Military briefing: why Russia and Ukraine are fighting over Snake Island

    Black Sea outcrop is as much a tool of propaganda as of military strategy for Moscow and Kyiv

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Nato
    Putin signals acceptance of Finland and Sweden joining Nato

    Russia warns of response if alliance sites military equipment on new territories and Turkey objections remain hurdle

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    Malcolm Chalmers
    Crimea could be Putin’s tipping point in a game of nuclear chicken

    Any threat to the peninsula from Ukraine or its allies risks dangerous escalation

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    Europe Express
    Is religion the new divide between Russia and the west? Premium content

    Sharp differences have arisen between Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Church over the invasion of Ukraine

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US holds first talks with Russian defence minister since Ukraine war began

    Lloyd Austin calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in conversation with Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ObituaryLeonid Kravchuk
    Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1934-2022

    Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Vladimir Putin
    Sanctions target ‘shady network’ backing Putin, UK says

    Travel bans and asset freezes imposed on 7 family members and five financiers

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    News in-depthCuba
    ‘Now it will only get worse’: Cuba grapples with impact of Ukraine war

    Russia’s longtime ally is already struggling with food and fuel shortages and a collapse in tourism

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    Vladimir Potanin: the original oligarch snapping up Russian banks

    Metals tycoon close to Kremlin and with an eye for a bargain has not been hit with sanctions by the UK, EU or US

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia signals plan to annex Kherson in southern Ukraine

    Local officials installed by Moscow say they intend to ask Vladimir Putin for region to join Russia

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin preparing for ‘prolonged conflict’ in Ukraine, warns US

    Director of national intelligence says Russia’s president still has ambitions ‘beyond the Donbas’

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin claims Russian troops ‘fighting on their own land’ in Victory Day speech

    President justifies Ukraine invasion but reins in nuclear rhetoric as Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘horrific crimes’

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    Ukraine and the shadow of the Nazis

    When both sides accuse their enemies of being the heirs to Hitler, compromise becomes almost unthinkable

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Henry Kissinger
    ‘We are now living in a totally new era’ — Henry Kissinger

    Cold war strategist discusses Russia, the Ukraine war and China at the FTWeekend Festival in Washington

  • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
    William Burns
    Putin ‘doesn’t believe he can afford to lose’ — William Burns, CIA director

    Intelligence chief discusses Russian president and war in Ukraine at FTWeekend Festival in Washington

  • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
    World poised to scan Putin’s military showcase for clues to Kremlin intent

    Victory Day parades may not prove the show of strength Moscow intends, say analysts

  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war

    Bill Burns tells FT conference that invasion may have affected Xi Jinping’s calculations over Taiwan

  • Saturday, 7 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Kherson defiant as Russia seeks to tighten its grip on occupied Ukraine

    Moscow introduces rouble and internet control as its extends Russian state to territory taken as part of its invasion

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    FT CollectionsData rich: the numbers behind corporate news
    Western banks prepare for $10bn hit in retreat from Russia

    Ukraine invasion forcing US and European lenders with thousands of staff in country to depart

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Andrei Kozyrev
    Putin’s Red Square parade will be a squalid spectacle

    The rest of the world must reject the Russian president’s attempt to annex the memory of the ‘Great Patriotic War’

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russian troops step up Azovstal assault in bid for Victory Day success

    Kremlin targets steelworks as Ukraine’s forces make last stand in strategic city of Mariupol

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    How the west became less anxious about Russia’s nuclear threat

    Despite sabre-rattling US and allies believe deploying such weapons would be too risky for Moscow

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia pummelled by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion

    Cyber attacks lead to ‘avalanche’ of secret data from state-backed groups and private companies

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
    Expanding Nato will deepen east-west fissure

    Admitting Finland and Sweden would only broaden the divide between Russia and its neighbours

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