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How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa

By: Paul Mozur， Adam Satariano and Aaron Krolik —
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
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He Was a Russian Political Survivor, Until the Masked Men Appeared

By: Valerie Hopkins and Alina Lobzina —
Boris B. Nadezhdin, an outspoken opponent of the war in Ukraine, says he knows why he was detained: “Among our leadership, there is panic and chaos.”

Boris B. Nadezhdin at home in June.

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With Missile Strike on Ukraine, Putin Delivers a Warning to Europe

By: Valerie Hopkins —
A nuclear-capable missile fired into Ukraine near Poland sent a message to Europe days after its leaders agreed to postwar security guarantees, Russian analysts said.

Damage to an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, after a strike on Friday.

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Zelensky Is Under Pressure from Trump and Domestically

By: Cassandra Vinograd and Andrew E. Kramer —
Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A U.S. peace plan may be his biggest test.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a French air base this month. He is seeking support from his European partners as he negotiates with the Trump administration over a U.S. peace proposal.

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Russia Targets Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure With Deadly Bombardment

By: Marc Santora —
At least five people were killed before dawn in another large-scale and wide-ranging assault.

A wounded man being carried after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine.

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When Trump Rages, Silicon Valley Stays Silent

By: Kim Scott —
Kim Scott, who lived and worked in Russia, on Silicon Valley’s silent complicity in the rise of authoritarianism.

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Moscow Indicates Retaliation if Europe Uses Russian Assets for Ukraine

By: Paul Sonne —
Amid a plan to lend $165 billion to Kyiv using Russian state assets, European officials are mindful of the possibility of blowback as they gather to discuss the idea.

President Vladimir V. Putin in a photograph released by Russian state media. Mr. Putin said any Western “theft” of reserves would accelerate the development of alternative payment systems.

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A Sidelined Zelensky Warns That Russia Will Try to Deceive the U.S.

By: Marc Santora —
Ukraine fears that the Kremlin will try to convince President Trump at U.S.-Russian talks in Alaska that Ukraine, not Russia, is the obstacle to peace.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany welcoming President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Berlin in May. Ukraine and its European allies are pressing hard for Mr. Zelensky to be included in talks.

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Vance Says U.S. Is Working for a Meeting With Trump, Putin and Zelensky

By: Luke Broadwater —
The vice president said the White House was trying to determine “when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.”

Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration no longer wished to fund Ukraine’s defense of the Russian invasion.

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Trump’s Shift on Ukraine Is Good News for Europe, for Now

By: Steven Erlanger —
After European leaders stepped up military spending, President Trump aligned himself more closely with them on the war. But his tariffs threats have left bruises.

Firefighters in Odesa, Ukraine, this month after a Russian strike. President Trump warned Moscow that he would impose new economic punishments if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.

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Tom Friedman: Trump Is a ‘Small Man in a Big Time’

By: Patrick Healy， Thomas L. Friedman and Vishakha Darbha —
Nearly 60 days in, the president is failing to engage in long-term thinking.

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Russian Public Is Ready to End War but Skeptical of Concessions, Analysis Finds

By: Julian E. Barnes and Marc Santora —
There is little appetite in Ukraine and Russia for major concessions, according to a U.S. firm’s analysis of online posts. But a minority of Russians want to keep fighting until Ukraine’s president is overthrown.

An analysis of internet and social media posts from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russian border regions showed weariness with the war, but also skepticism toward potential cease-fire agreements.

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Sanctions Against Russia

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We explain what President Trump may do with them.

Exchange rates in Moscow.

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How Far Will Trump Go? Tom Friedman Is Banking on the Law of Gravity.

By: Thomas L. Friedman， Patrick Healy and Jillian Weinberger —
The president wants to create a revolution abroad. This Opinion columnist would love to see a plan.

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Thanks to Trump, Saudi Arabia Gets a Big Week in Diplomacy

By: Vivian Yee and Ismaeel Naar —
Riyadh is hosting U.S., Russian and Arab officials for high-stakes talks on Ukraine and Gaza, more proof of its regional clout and warm relations with President Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio being welcomed on Monday by the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, in Riyadh.

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As Trump Turns Against Ukraine, Republicans in Congress Stay Quiet

By: Robert Jimison —
Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.

A few Republicans, including Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, have made clear they do not agree with the president’s approach but have taken pains not to criticize him.

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In Fight for Syria, a Battle for Domination of the Middle East

By: Neil MacFarquhar —
In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics that also affect nations like Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United States.

Syrian antigovernment fighters pouring into the city of Hama on Friday.

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Russia Tightens Grip on Wagner Units in Africa, Year After Failed Mutiny

By: Elian Peltier —
Moscow has largely taken over the African operations of the paramilitary group, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed after leading an insurrection against Vladimir Putin.

Russian military instructors appeared on state television in Niger after arriving in the capital, Niamey, in April.

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Macron Unsettles NATO Allies Even As He Seeks to Rattle Putin

By: Roger Cohen —
The French president’s openness to Western troops in Ukraine signaled a quest for military resolve. But some allies felt blindsided.

President Emmanuel Macron at Élysée Palace on Monday. “The defeat of Russia is indispensable to the security and stability of Europe,” he said this week.

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