New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- Seizure at sea, nuclear safety on diesel, and a homecoming of detainees define a cold weather turn in the Russia Ukraine war

Kyiv. Zaporizhzhia. Paris. Sochi: The Russia Ukraine war entered Day 1,318 on Friday with a set of developments that pulled the conflict's logic in several directions at once. Inside Ukraine, engineers again chased down outages after new strikes on the grid, a pattern we tracked in day 1,314 coverage of rolling power losses. In Sochi, President Vladimir Putin set his tone for the weeks ahead during a high profile forum, signaling resolve and issuing warnings that reached beyond the battlefield, a ritual we examined in our Valdai nuclear-rhetoric explainer. In Paris, France moved to test Europe'...