Yuliya Talmazan

As outrage grows over reports of babies dying and a mass grave being dug at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, Israel has publicly indicated a desire to mitigate the crisis there — not by ending the siege but by offering fuel and mobile incubators. On Sunday night, the Israel Defense Forces released footage appearing to show soldiers depositing 300 liters (about 79 gallons) of fuel at Al-Shifa’s entrance and announced an evacuation route for people in the complex to flee. On Monday came a pledge that the…

TEL AVIV — The family of two U.S. hostages Hamas released last week described in an interview Monday their struggle to grapple with feelings of relief for the freed mother and daughter — and fear for those still held captive by the militant group, including eight of their loved ones. “It was everything all at once — joy, then guilt for feeling joy for just a second,” said Ayelet Sella, a cousin of Judith Raanan, who, along with her daughter, Natalie, was freed Friday in the first diplomatic brea…

A U.S. journalist has been detained in Russia, her employer said, the second such case since the war in Ukraine started. Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual Russian American reporter with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was detained in the southwest Russian city of Kazan on Wednesday while awaiting the return of her passports, her employer said Thursday in a statement. RFE/RL said Kurmasheva, who is based in Prague, has been charged with failure to register as a foreign agent, a designation Russia…

President Vladimir Putin has said Russia successfully completed the testing of a new nuclear-powered strategic missile and could revoke its ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty, raising fears that Moscow could resume nuclear testing for the first time in decades. The Russian leader’s renewed nuclear talk on Thursday came against the backdrop of escalating rhetoric among Kremlin hawks, with a prominent propagandist drawing criticism this week for claims Russia should detonate a nuclear weapo…

All 27 European Union foreign ministers descended on Kyiv on Monday in a historic show of support after the passage of a U.S. funding bill that included no new aid for Ukraine and left future support for the war with Russia in the balance. The E.U.’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, sought to emphasize the importance of the first meeting of foreign ministers held outside the bloc. “This joint meeting of European Union foreign ministers with Ukraine in Kyiv should be understood as a clear commitment…

Russia’s “Gen. Armageddon” seems to be missing no more. A new photo appears to show Sergei Surovikin, a top general who was seen as close to Yevgeny Prigozhin and disappeared from public view after the Wagner mercenaries’ mutiny. The photo published Monday, as well as reports in Russian and foreign media, follow months of speculation about his fate. “General Sergei Surovikin is out. Alive, healthy, at home, with his family, in Moscow,” read the caption on the photo, which was posted to the Tele…

Ukraine and its allies have vociferously rejected Russian accusations, saying the Kremlin’s public claims suggest it is seeking to build a pretext for its own actions.

Kyiv warned earlier this month about Moscow’s increasing use of Iranian-made drones to attack civilian and infrastructure targets.

“It was scary, it felt like Feb. 24 inside,” Kyiv resident Alyona Gudenko told NBC News, referring to the day Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion.

“He will never get better,” Kateryna Chernoval said of her grandson.