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#washingtonpost.com. × Attack on Iran shows Russia losing clout but perhaps reaping war dividends. Some in the Kremlin believe a prolonged U.S. war could work in Russia’s favor by boosting oil prices and diverting key weapons from Ukraine.

#washingtonpost.com. × Europe’s aid for Ukraine hits setback on war’s fourth anniversary. Hungary’s veto over European funding could constrain Ukraine’s ability to fund its army and weaken its hand in U.S. talks with Russia over the war.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia opens probe of Telegram chief, claiming app has been used for terrorism. Russia is intensifying efforts to push users away from foreign messaging apps and toward a domestic platform that has been criticized as a surveillance tool.

#washingtonpost.com. × As invasion enters fifth year, the children of Ukraine learn to fight back. More than 385,000 Ukrainian teenagers are enrolled in a defense course, expecting war, or threats, to go on for years. In Russia, children are learning the same skills.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukraine protests renewed Paralympics participation by Russia, Belarus. The decision allowing Russia and Belarus to rejoin competition drew outrage in Ukraine and Europe following the disqualification last week of a Ukrainian skeleton athlete.

#washingtonpost.com. × Talks break in Geneva with no end to Russia’s war or hard-line demands. After two hours of talks in Geneva on Wednesday, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, said negotiations had been “difficult but businesslike.”

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. and Iran resume nuclear talks amid heavy military buildup. Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head the U.S. team and are responsible for Russia-Ukraine talks nearby, meaning they may be shuttling quickly between venues.

#washingtonpost.com. × In Geneva, Ukraine talks face impasse as Russia holds firm on demands. High casualties and economic trouble signal time is no longer on Russia’s side, but Moscow isn’t backing off political and territorial demands to weaken Ukraine.

#washingtonpost.com. × ‘Highly likely’ that rare poison killed Putin nemesis Navalny, Europeans say. Toxin from poison dart frogs probably killed Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison, five countries announced on the two-year anniversary of his death.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukrainian athlete’s ban from Olympic skeleton event over helmet images is upheld. Vladyslav Heraskevych was removed from the men’s skeleton event for refusing to remove a helmet with portraits of Ukrainian athletes who’ve died in the war with Russia.

#washingtonpost.com. × Vance visits Armenia, Azerbaijan as Trump eyes deals in Russia’s sphere. The vice president’s historic trip illustrates Trump’s transactional diplomacy and willingness to use economic muscle to elbow out rivals such as Russia and Iran.

#washingtonpost.com. × Zelensky says U.S. is readying huge economic deals with Russia. The Ukrainian president said he had intelligence indicating that the U.S. and Russia were readying $12 trillion in economic agreements some involving Ukrainian interests.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. accuses China of secretive nuclear test as arms-control agreements lapse. Top U.S. nuclear official accuses China of conducting a secret nuclear test in 2020 and confirms plans to restart U.S. nuclear testing, citing a need to match covert detonations by Beijing and Moscow.

#washingtonpost.com. × Top Russian general shot in Moscow as talks stall on Ukraine ceasefire. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia’s main foreign military intelligence agency, was targeted at his home in Moscow, officials said.

#washingtonpost.com. × Epstein built ties to Russians and sought to meet Putin, files show. Justice Department files show that Jeffrey Epstein sought help from a Russian official after claiming a woman from Moscow was blackmailing “powerful businessmen” in New York.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S., Russia to resume high-level military talks. A U.S. official called the deal a by-product of ongoing efforts to end the Ukraine war. It came as a key nuclear treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.

#washingtonpost.com. × As West goes after Russia’s oil fleet, Moscow fears for its war funding. New European measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet could severely hurt its economy at a time when it is looking increasingly vulnerable.

#washingtonpost.com. × The treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arms is expiring. What to know.. U.S. lawmakers have expressed concern that the end of New START could lead to “a dangerous and costly arms race” between the world’s biggest nuclear powers.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia delivers worst attack this year to Ukraine’s power sector. The president said he persuaded Russia’s Vladimir Putin to stop striking Ukraine’s energy grid during a frigid period, but missiles fell on Kyiv hours later.

#washingtonpost.com. × Germany arrests five, saying they violated sanctions against Russia. Prosecutors said the suspects ran an export network that sent more than 16,000 shipments worth more than $30 million to Russian customers, including arms manufacturers.

#washingtonpost.com. × Kenyan job seekers were lured to Russia, then sent to die in Ukraine. The Post spoke to four Kenyans who fought in Ukraine and relatives of nine other recruits, as a secret pipeline funnels young Africans to Russia’s military.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia strikes Ukrainian energy sector after Trump push for pause. A Russian attack on coal mining facilities in Ukraine Sunday killed at least 12 miners, according to DTEK, the country’s largest private energy company.

#washingtonpost.com. × Belarusian balloons full of cigarettes pose NATO’s latest security threat. A rising number of incursions into NATO airspace has led some officials to allege an escalation of a Russian hybrid attacks against the alliance and the European Union.

#washingtonpost.com. × Russia reveals Ukraine energy ceasefire pushed by Trump is already nearly over. Trump asked Putin to hold off hitting power facilities in Kyiv and other towns but the Kremlin says the pause on strikes expires on Sunday.

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