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WATCH: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy asks Biden to lift U.S. limits on striking Russian military targets

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Eric Tucker, Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday embraced the support of allies who have provided substantial new aid and a path to joining NATO, even as he emphatically pushed for the help to arrive faster and for restrictions to be lifted on the use of…

Team that investigated Trump and Russia for Mueller Report will share ‘inside story’ in upcoming book

By Associated Press

The team assembled by special counsel Robert S. Mueller to investigate alleged Russian interference and ties to Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election will have a book out this fall.

Jens Stoltenberg wraps up his final summit as NATO secretary-general

By Lorne Cook, Associated Press

Jens Stoltenberg steps down as NATO’s 13th secretary-general in the fall, after one of the most tumultuous decades in alliance history.

China warns NATO not to create ‘chaos’ in Asia and rejects label of ‘enabler’ of Russia

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

A China spokesperson accused NATO of interfering in China's internal politics and smearing China's image.

Poland’s foreign minister on defending Ukraine and its path to NATO membership

By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn

The 32 members of NATO are meeting in Washington and the focus is largely on Ukraine. Members will announce they are sending new air defense systems a day after one of the worst attacks on Kyiv in years. Diplomats are…

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Rescue operations continue at Ukraine children’s hospital struck by Russian missiles

By Samya Kullab, Illia Novikov, Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile.

Putin hosts India’s prime minister in Russia to deepen ties, but war in Ukraine looms

By Emma Burrows, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, seeking to deepen the two nuclear powers' relationship as NATO leaders gathered in Washington and Russia and launched deadly missile strikes in Ukraine that destroyed a children's hospital.

Russian missile attack hits Ukrainian children’s hospital amid bombardment, dozens killed

By Hanna Arhirova, Illia Novikov, Associated Press

Strikes in Kryvyi Rih killed 10 people and injured 47, while seven people were killed in Kyiv, authorities said.

Ukrainian drone sets off explosions at Russian warehouse near border as war grinds on

By Samya Kullab, Associated Press

A village in a border region of western Russia was evacuated Sunday following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse, local officials said.

Where Putin stands on using nuclear weapons to win Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Associated Press

As the war in Ukraine turned slowly in Moscow's favor this summer, Putin declared he doesn’t need nuclear weapons to achieve his goals. But he also says it's wrong for the West to assume that Russia will never use them.