Russia-Ukraine war latest updates – The Washington Post
Russia is set to begin annual nuclear exercises Wednesday involving large-scale drills of its strategic forces. While the drills are routine, President Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons since the war in Ukraine began.
At a closed-door U.N. Security Council meeting, Western diplomats denounced Russia’s unfounded claim that Ukraine plans to use a “dirty bomb” on its own soil as misinformation. “We’ve seen and heard no new evidence. … It’s completely wasting our time,” Britain’s deputy U.N. ambassador, James Kariuki, told reporters after the meeting.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
4. From our correspondents
As the war’s ripple effects are felt throughout the continent, the transition from temporary relief to longer-term support for Ukrainians is putting the bloc’s commitments to the test, write Rick Noack, Meg Kelly, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Ladka Bauerova. The E.U.’s 27 member states have accommodated these refugees to an extent they claimed was impossible during the Syrian migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016; still, many Ukrainians have had to move from place to place and have yet to secure employment.
Mothers with young children say it has been especially hard to find time to seek job interviews or enroll in language lessons. And in some cases, their ability to build new lives has depended on the country, city or even street they chose — or were sent to.
“Many Ukrainians are going to stay here for a long time. Maybe months, maybe years, maybe forever,” Helena Krajewska, a spokeswoman for Polish Humanitarian Action, one of the country’s largest aid groups, told The Post. “We need to help them be able to provide for themselves.”