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Russia and Ukraine News, Biden and Putin: Live Tracker

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s interior ministry announced Thursday that Russian troops had pushed from Belarus, north of Ukraine, into the highly radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone, touching off a battle that risked damaging the cement-encased nuclear reactor that melted down in 1986.

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Russia-Ukraine Live Updates: Video and Latest News

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine braced for all-out conflict on Wednesday as officials prepared to declare a 30-day state of emergency and mobilized military reservists in response to threats by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who remained defiant in the face of global condemnations and toughening Western sanctions.

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The Latest on the Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Live Updates

MOSCOW — A tough global response to moves by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia against Ukraine began to take shape on Tuesday as European nations prepared to impose sanctions and Germany halted a key gas pipeline, but the Russian leader remained defiant in the face of worldwide condemnations.

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Russia-Ukraine Live News: Putin Says He Will Consider Recognizing Separatist States

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin kept an anxious world guessing about whether he plans to invade Ukraine, announcing on Monday that he would consider recognizing the independence of two breakaway regions of Ukraine while his foreign minister said he was willing to meet his American counterpart for talks this week in Geneva.

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Russia and Ukraine News: Live Updates

KYIV, Ukraine — With fears mounting of war in Europe, President Biden prepared to gather NATO allies by phone on Friday to discuss the threat to Ukraine, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia planned to preside over the launches of nuclear-capable missiles on Saturday in drills that will showcase the country’s most destructive weapons.

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Live Updates

KYIV, Ukraine — The United States and Russia offered two starkly different versions of the reality on the ground surrounding Ukraine on Thursday, with the Kremlin offering its most detailed accounting so far of what it has described as a partial troop withdrawal, while America and its NATO allies said the Russian threat continued to grow.

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis News: Live Updates

KYIV, Ukraine — The United States and NATO said on Wednesday that they had still seen no sign of a pullback of Russian troops from near Ukraine, even as Moscow said it was continuing a partial military withdrawal and Ukraine sought to project national unity in the face of the threat.

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Live Updates: Ukraine and Russia News

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that some troops deployed from military districts bordering Ukraine were being loaded onto trains and trucks and sent back to their garrisons, a tentative sign that Russia could be stepping away from the threat of an invasion.

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Live News and Updates

MOSCOW — Even with Russian warships massing off Ukraine’s Black Sea coast and the United States warning that Russian ground forces are poised to strike from multiple directions, Russia’s top diplomat said on Monday that the possibility for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis was “far from exhausted.”

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With Buildup on Land and Sea, Russia Closes in on Ukraine

MOSCOW — Thousands of Russian troops on Thursday began 10 days of exercises in Belarus, and Ukraine warned of upcoming Russian naval drills so extensive they would block shipping lanes, as the Kremlin continued to tighten its military vise on Ukraine.