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The Ukrainian politician and oligarch had acted as the Kremlin’s primary agent of influence in Ukraine for years.

In towns reclaimed from Russian occupation, Ukrainian officials are working to identify — and punish — those who helped the enemy. It’s dividing some communities.

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The exchange, the war’s largest, included Viktor Medvechuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and close friend of the Russian president.

Politicians and diplomats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a memorial service in Washington, D.C.

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The Russian leader announced a call-up of troops and hinted at using nuclear weapons, accusing the West of trying to “destroy our country” and vowing that Russia would defend itself.

President Biden portrayed Russia as the chief threat to global peace and renewed warnings that “a nuclear war cannot be won.”

“A crime has been committed against Ukraine, and we demand just punishment,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a recorded speech to the U.N. General Assembly.

In a major speech, he recast the war in Ukraine and made clear it could spread.