Regardless of whether Beijing had advance warning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decision to issue a statement last month outlining a “no limits” partnership with Moscow was arguably the single biggest foreign policy blunder of his nearly ten years in power. Russian President Vladimir Putin will …

Russian forces fired at a convoy of civilians fleeing Mariupol • Russian forces shot and killed 10 people waiting in line for bread in Chernihiv Russian forces bombed a theater where civilians were sheltering in the encircled port city of Mariupol on Wednesday, the city council said. It said the …

Russian forces destroyed a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of people were sheltering and rained fire on other cities Wednesday, Ukrainian authorities said, even as the two sides projected optimism over efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries in what …