This Month
Russia using WW1 chemical weapons in Ukraine: US
The US made the accusation as the French president stepped up calls for Europe to consider sending troops to Ukraine in the future.
- Constant Méheut and Marc Santora
Global crises making it hard for ethical investors: Gareth Evans
The former foreign minister nominated Israel’s “disproportionate” response to the Hamas attacks and Narendra Modi’s leadership of India as challenges for investors.
- Phillip Coorey
April
- Opinion
- Opinion
Fight to the last Ukrainian
More aid is clearly a relief for Kyiv, but will it be enough to reverse the tide of the war?
- James Curran
Russian missiles pound Ukraine’s battered power plants
Russian missiles again targeted the nation’s strained energy grid in a broad and complex attack, as Defence Minister Richard Marles pledged $100 million in aid.
- Updated
- Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth
Failure to reopen Australia embassy in Kyiv ‘an embarrassment’
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles visited Ukraine to unveil the package, including drones and air-defence systems, but there was one glaring omission from his trip.
- Hans van Leeuwen and Ronald Mizen
‘No silver bullet’: Ukraine has weapons but still needs the troops
The $94 billion US aid package should stop Russia in its tracks, but it won’t be nearly enough to send Putin packing.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Eric Schmidt is helping build Ukraine’s war machine
Google’s ex-chief executive is a force behind a new generation of drones that may revolutionise warfare.
- David Sanger
US secretly shipped new long-range missiles to Ukraine
Ukraine for the first time has used a longer-range version of weapons known as ATACMS, striking an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine.
- Eric Schmitt
- Opinion
- Opinion
US aid should arrive just in time to avert Ukraine’s defeat
Even more concerning than the growing size of the invading Russian forces is their increased competence.
- Max Boot
Zelensky says ‘chance of victory’ in race to deploy US funding
Ukraine’s president said his soldiers are outgunned on the battlefield after months of infighting in Washington, before a $95 billion aid package was approved.
- Shane Harris, Patrick Marley and Mariana Alfaro
- Opinion
- Opinion
Cashed-up Ukraine is front line of push against ‘axis of adversaries’
The Western alliance is playing a potentially deadly mind game with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea – deploying military force to prevent a wider war.
- Gideon Rachman
Relief in Ukraine as US House approves $95b in aid
The vote marks a victory for Republican defence hawks against the more isolationist wing of the party led by Donald Trump.
- Updated
- Siobhán O'Grady
US can send fresh weapons to Ukraine ‘within days’
The Pentagon had already moved stockpiles of the most-needed arms closer to Ukraine’s borders before the passage of a crucial foreign aid bill in the US House.
- Tony Diver
- Exclusive
- Ukraine
On the front line with Ukraine’s youngest commander
Kharkiv’s improbable resistance, led by General Sergei Melnik, faces growing threats from Russia and political stalemate in the US.
- Jack Wright
Russia’s spy network takes a deadly turn
The country’s intelligence services have been put on a war footing and begun operating at a level of aggressiveness reminiscent of the Stalin era.
- Michael Schwirtz and José Bautista
Russia bans Daniel Andrews and 234 other Aussies
The former Victorian premier is one of the most high-profile of the MPs across the political divide who have been banned from Russia.
Ukraine’s top commander says front has ‘significantly worsened’
Ukraine’s outmanned and outgunned army is struggling to halt a multipronged and intensifying Russian offensive.
- Christopher Miller and Guy Chazan
LME bans new Russian metal, but braces for a flood of old stock
Some traders and producers have argued that exchange should ban all Russian material to avoid being overwhelmed by a flood of unwanted stock, which they say is depressing prices.
- Jack Farchy and Mark Burton
Ukraine’s army at breaking point after new Russian missile strikes
Ukraine is at its most fragile in more than two years of war, according to officials, as Russian missile attacks blow up Kyiv’s biggest power plant.
- Natalia Drozdiak, Peter Martin and Kateryna Chursina
Boris Johnson: ‘You can’t make America great again if Ukraine falls to Putin’
The former UK PM urged Republicans in Congress to unite against Russia to maintain America’s status as the world’s pre-eminent superpower.
- Benedict Smith
