by Trudy Rubin When a 2,000-pound Russian missile slammed into a crowded shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk last Monday — killing at least 18 people buying bathing suits or blenders — that was par for the course for Russia. Only the day before, a barrage ...
by Doyle McManus I was in the hills of northern Italy last week, mostly on vacation but also curious to see how the war in Ukraine has affected life next door in Europe. It wasn’t hard to find the effects. You’re unhappy about $5 a gallon for gas? Try $8. “It’s painful ...
After Ukraine’s initial, inspiring victories over Russian invaders in Kyiv and other critical western and central cities, its intrepid military faces fierce fighting and significant setbacks in eastern Ukraine. The more open terrain works to Russia’s military advantage in weaponry, ...
Starving world’s poor by blocking grain exports by Trudy Rubin You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of weapons of mass destruction). You haven’t. Moscow is blockading (or destroying) Ukraine’s port cities on the ...
by Elizabeth Shackelford This week, I’m getting married in France. I should be writing my vows, but instead I’m writing this column, though the concept of marriage is still on my mind. Being a foreign policy nerd, it occurs to me that the closest approximation to marriage in ...
by Byron York In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not ...