May 28, 2023, 8:11 a.m. ET May 28, 2023, 8:11 a.m. ET President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, left, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia share an authoritarian streak and confrontational attitudes toward the West, emphasizing historical grievances against other world powers.Credit…Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik Officially, Western governments won’t talk about their preferences in Turkey’s elections,…
Ukrainian soldiers atop a tank moving toward the front line near Bakhmut last week.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces are engaged in “mopping up” operations to clear the remaining Ukrainian soldiers from the ruins of Bakhmut, a senior Ukrainian official said on Monday, as Kyiv’s military commanders seek to shift the…
May 21, 2023, 2:43 a.m. ET May 21, 2023, 2:43 a.m. ET President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with other Group of 7 leaders posing for a family photo in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sunday.Credit…Pool photo by Ludovic Marin What a difference a quarter-century makes. When I covered my first Group of 7 meeting in 1997 in…