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How China Could Choke Taiwan’s Economy With a Blockade

For decades, Beijing has had its sights on Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its own. It has built up the People’s Liberation Army with the goal of ultimately taking Taiwan, if efforts to unify peacefully fail. It has modernized its forces, developing the world’s largest navy, which now challenges American supremacy in the seas around Taiwan.

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After 6 Months of War in Ukraine, Here’s Where the Conflict Stands

It has been six months since Russian forces swept into Ukraine. This is what the conflict looks like for the combatants, and to a worried continent trying to maintain solidarity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/europe/ukraine-russia-six-months.html

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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the request of Russia to discuss the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, where nearby fighting has raised the risk of a nuclear accident.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/23/world/ukraine-russia-war-news

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The Russian authorities on Monday blamed Ukraine for organizing the killing of Daria Dugina, the ultranationalist daughter of a prominent Russian supporter of the invasion, a claim that raised fears of a further escalation in the six-month war.

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Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target in Ukraine.

President Vladimir V. Putin knows that Ukraine’s fate, its access to the sea and its grain exports hinge on Odesa. Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-russia-putin.html

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Ukraine-Russia War: Live Updates

LVIV, Ukraine — With Ukraine and Russia mired in a seemingly intractable conflict, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, was meeting with the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents on Thursday to discuss a political solution to end the violence and assess the state of grain exports.

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Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces fail to gain ground in eastern Ukraine and fortify defensive positions in the south, Ukrainian officials are warning of a buildup of Russian long-range missile systems to the north, in Belarus, which has served as a key staging ground for Moscow in the war.

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Ukraine War News: Blasts Hit Russian Ammunition Depot in Crimea

ODESA, Ukraine — Explosions rocked a Russian ammunition depot on the occupied Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday morning, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow’s forces a week after blasts at a Russian air base in the same region destroyed several fighter jets.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — In their summer campaign to drive Russian troops from the southern region of Kherson, Ukraine’s forces have decimated Russian command centers and ammunition depots, severed supply lines with precision strikes on key bridges, and sown terror among collaborationist officials with a spate of car bombings, shootings and, Ukrainian officials said, at least one poisoning.

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Russia-Ukraine War: Latest News

A senior Ukrainian official suggested on Friday that the casualty toll from explosions at an air base in Crimea this week was far higher than previous estimates, further contradicting a Russian account about damage at a site that has been a vital jumping-off point for Moscow’s military operations since its invasion of Ukraine began in late February.