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The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests

How Beijing’s carefully calibrated support has helped sustain Moscow as it fights Ukraine—without crossing key red lines

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In Ukraine’s front-line city of Kramatorsk, couples separated by war risk brief reunions as Russian forces close in

By attacking Iran, the U.S. has disrupted a second source of cheap oil to its biggest rival in a matter of weeks