Russian strikes killed 20 people in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Friday night, a sign that Moscow is stepping up bombardments of cities critical for Ukrainian logistics and support and taking advantage of Washington’s decision to pause military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Facebook on Saturday that Russian forces had fired two ballistic missiles into the small city of Dobropillia, and that after emergency services arrived, another Russian attack had rained down on the rescuers. The strikes killed 11 people in the city, according to Vadym Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration.

The attack came a week after the disastrous meeting in the White House with Mr. Zelensky and President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. A deal that was supposed to have been signed during Mr. Zelensky’s visit — and that would have promised some future U.S. involvement in Ukraine — fell apart. Since then, the United States has suspended military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, saying that Mr. Zelensky has not demonstrated that Ukraine is ready for peace.

On Friday, Mr. Trump was asked by reporters in the Oval Office whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was capitalizing on the void left by the United States’ dropping its aid to Ukraine.

“I actually think he’s doing what anyone else would do,” Mr. Trump said.

At the same time, Mr. Trump complained that Russia was “bombing the hell out of Ukraine,” and threatened sanctions against Russia unless it stopped attacking.

Still, he described his dealings with Mr. Putin in positive terms. Mr. Trump also described Ukraine as being more challenging to deal with as he pressed for a peace deal.

On Friday, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War posted a chart showing that Russia had intensified drone and missile strikes on Ukraine after Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January.

“Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace,” George Barros, an analyst at the institute who focuses on Russia and Ukraine, wrote on X. He added: “Ukraine has offered many concessions to start peace processes. Russia has offered zero.”

On Friday night, Russia launched three missiles — one of which Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted — and 145 attack drones at Ukraine, officials said. Air defense forces shot down 79 drones; another 54 were lost from radar tracking without causing any damage.

In Dobropillia, the shelling damaged eight five-story buildings, an administrative building and 30 cars, and set several of the buildings on fire, Ukraine’s state emergency service said. Another 30 people were wounded, including five children.

Photographs posted by the emergency service showed what appeared to be a five-story apartment building on fire. Officials said that Russian forces had attacked again while firefighters were struggling to extinguish the blaze.

“Yesterday’s strike on Dobropillia was one of the cruelest in recent times,” Mr. Filashkin said on the Telegram messaging app.

Another nine people were killed in shelling elsewhere in the part of Donetsk still controlled by Ukrainian forces.

As of Tuesday, about 288,000 civilians remained in the Ukrainian-controlled areas of the Donetsk, the regional state administration said. About 31,000 live in communities classified as active combat zones.

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s impeached president, who is standing trial on insurrection charges over his decision to impose martial law in December, was released from a detention center on Saturday, a day after a court ruled that his detention was invalid.

The Seoul Central District Court ruled on Friday that prosecutors had violated procedural rules by holding Mr. Yoon in detention longer than legally allowed before indicting him in January. The procedural violation rendered Mr. Yoon’s detention invalid, the court said.

Prosecutors, who had a week to appeal the decision, requested instead that he be released.

Mr. Yoon smiled broadly, waving at supporters as he walked out of a detention center south of Seoul, where he had been held since Jan. 15.

His release does not affect the insurrection charge he faces in a Seoul criminal court related to his martial law declaration, or the separate proceedings at the Constitutional Court. That body is deliberating whether his parliamentary impeachment was legitimate, and if he should be formally removed from office. But it does mean that he will be free while standing trial.

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Russian and North Korean forces have made significant battlefield advances in recent days in the Kursk region of Russia, threatening Ukraine’s supply lines and its hold on a patch of land it hopes to use as a bargaining chip in future negotiations, according to Ukrainian soldiers, Russian military bloggers and military analysts.

Working together, a new influx of North Korean soldiers and well-trained Russian drone units, advancing under the cover of ferocious artillery fire and aerial bombardment, have been able to overwhelm important Ukrainian positions, Ukrainian soldiers said.

“It’s true; we can’t stop them,” said Oleksii, the commander of a Ukrainian communications unit fighting in the area, when reached by phone. “They just sweep us away, advancing in groups of 50 North Koreans while we have only six men on our positions.”

“Decisions are being made here, but I don’t know how effective they will be,” he said.

If Ukrainian forces were cut off or forced to retreat, it would be a significant setback for Kyiv. Not only was the incursion into Kursk a signature operation that boosted morale and embarrassed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but holding territory in Russia gave Ukraine a potential bargaining chip in any peace negotiations. Pulling out could weaken its bargaining position at a moment when President Trump is trying to force through settlement talks.

Ukrainian forces first swept across the border last summer in an unexpected assault, overrunning unprepared Russian positions and securing a bridgehead of some 200 square miles around the Russian town of Sudzha, which sits about six miles from the border.

It was the first time that a foreign army had crossed into Russian territory since World War II.

Military analysts remain divided on whether the surprise decision to carry out an offensive into Russian territory served a useful purpose or was a strategic mistake.

Russian and North Korean soldiers have retaken about two-thirds of the land lost in the summer — but at a horrendous cost, with at least 4,000 troops killed in combat, according to Ukrainian, South Korean and Western intelligence estimates.

Ukrainian officials have said the offensive served multiple goals: thwarting a looming Russian offensive into the Sumy region of Ukraine; demonstrating that Western fears of escalation were overwrought; forcing Russia to divert resources away from the frontline in Ukraine; and possibly serving as leverage in future peace negotiations.

The recent setbacks in Kursk have come as Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine have managed to stall Russian offensive efforts for months and largely stabilize their lines.

Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Putin, who keeps tight control over all information in Russia, has paid no apparent political price for the military embarrassment in Kursk, even as the Kremlin has lost thousands of soldiers in grueling battles to drive the Ukrainians out.

As the battles dragged on, the Russians brought in an estimated 12,000 North Koreans to join the fight. North Korea was already supplying Russia with millions of artillery shells Moscow desperately needed, as well as artillery and ballistic missiles.

For months, Russian and North Korean forces have been attacking in some of the most ferocious clashes of the war, the intensity rising and falling but never really subsiding, soldiers said.

The North Koreans were forced to withdraw from the battlefield in January and regroup, but they soon returned.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Feb. 8 that “Russia has once again deployed North Korean soldiers alongside its troops.” Four Ukrainian soldiers all said in interviews that North Koreans were at the vanguard of the latest waves of attacks, along with elite Russian drone units.

Ukrainian soldiers said the North Koreans were now better adapted to waging war on a battlefield that has been transformed by the proliferation of drones. They still engage in the same ferocious frontal assaults that led to so many casualties, but they are operating more cohesively.

“The North Koreans’ application of tactics is constantly improving,” said Andrii, a drone commander fighting in Kursk. They are working in better coordination with North Korean artillery units and supported by Russian drone operators, he said.

They have helped the Russians break through Ukrainian lines in the western part of the Ukrainian-held pocket near the border, south of Sudzha, according to DeepState, a group of analysts mapping the battlefield based on sources in the Ukrainian military, and open-source data like satellite imagery, photos and video posted on social media.

Ukrainian soldiers in the fighting said that their lines were broken south of the small village of Kurylivka, where the enemy troops were able to cross a narrow river in January. They quietly amassed forces, soldiers said, but by early March, there were simply too many North Koreans, and when they attacked they overran the Ukrainian positions.

Ukrainian forces retreated in an organized manner along designated defensive lines, Ukrainian soldiers said. The enemy advance has been halted, for the moment.

In addition to having an overwhelming edge in troops and firepower, the Russians have saturated the battlefield with fiber-optic drones. Unlike radio-controlled drones, these are immune to jamming because they are controlled by ultrathin fiber optic cables that unspool as their pilots guide them to their targets.

Capt. Oleksandr Shyrshyn, a battalion commander in the 47th Mechanized Brigade fighting in Kursk, said that the Russians appeared to have increased the range the drones can fly while bringing some of their best operators to the Kursk region.

Small Russian assault units of just a couple of soldiers are also now sometimes moving forward with the drones, further extending the range pilots can fly them.

“Once they storm in, at approximately 200 to 300 meters from the front line, they start using them from there,” he said.

This, he said, has allowed the Russians and North Koreans to strike more effectively at Ukraine’s main supply line: the only road leading from Ukraine to Sudzha.

That route has long been a target of Russian attacks. On a visit to the border this winter, it was littered with the wreckage of blasted-out armored tanks and other military vehicles that had failed to safely run the gauntlet.

The Russians can now keep that road under near-constant fire.

Captain Shyrsyn said that his soldiers were still able to hold their positions even under increasing pressure, but other soldiers said the situation was growing more difficult by the day.

Andrii, the drone commander, said, “The enemy has strongly focused on cutting our logistics, which affects our ability to hold the defense.”

“This was influenced by the number of their drones and the training of their crews,” he said. “It feels like they have gathered their best crews here, and, accordingly, their numbers are large.”

“We have losses,” he added, “but we are still carrying out the tasks assigned to us.”

Liubov Sholudko and Yurii Shyvala contributed reporting.

One person was missing, hundreds of thousands of homes were without power and communities were at risk of major flooding in eastern Australia on Saturday after the weakened storm formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Alfred neared the coast, still bringing heavy rains and dangerous winds.

Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, which had been in the cyclone’s path, appeared to have mostly escaped the storm’s impact. But the slow-churning system combined with high tides was causing widespread flooding down the coast in the nearby state of New South Wales.

Chris Minns, the state’s premier, said crews were searching for a man reported missing in the small town of Dorrigo, which was pummeled with more than 10 inches of rain overnight after days of heavy downpour.

“This emergency is not over,” he said. “The rivers are full, the rain is continuing and expected to keep falling in the days ahead, and wind conditions are very high and extreme.”

The police said the missing man had been driving a car that was swept away. He managed to get out of the car and onto a tree but was again overtaken by floodwaters before emergency workers were able to get to him.

More than 300,000 customers lost power in areas affected by the storm, according to the ABC, the country’s main public broadcaster. Emergency responders in New South Wales said they had carried out 30 flood rescues in the previous 24 hours, mostly of people in cars who had tried to drive through inundated streets.

Dozens of communities remained under evacuation orders in an area known as the Northern Rivers region, including parts of Lismore, a small city about eight hours north of Sydney. Lismore was inundated in a devastating flood in 2022 when the waters rose six feet higher than the previous record, killing 22 people.

Forecasters said Saturday afternoon that there was a danger that heavy rainfall would lead to floodwaters overtopping levees in the city.

Mr. Minns said officials were gearing up for a swift recovery in the storm’s aftermath, naming a point person to coordinate the efforts. In the 2022 floods, the authorities’ response was criticized by residents as inadequate and delayed, leaving people to take rescues and recovery into their own hands.

The police in Manitoba have identified some of the human remains found in the search of a landfill near Winnipeg last month as those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four Indigenous victims of a serial killer, the authorities said on Friday.

Ms. Harris and three other women, who were all from the Winnipeg area, were killed between March and May 2022. Ms. Harris, a member of the Long Plain First Nation, was 39.

Until Friday, only the remains of one woman, Rebecca Contois, 24, had been found and identified.

Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki was convicted in the killings late last year and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. He had expressed support for the far right on social media, filling his Facebook page with white supremacist, misogynistic and antisemitic comments.

The other two victims were Marcedes Myran, 26, and an unidentified woman whom First Nations elders call Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.

The issue of whether to search the Prairie Green Landfill near Winnipeg for the remains became a political issue during the 2023 provincial elections. The Progressive Conservatives, who were defeated, ran campaign ads and put up billboards opposing a search, citing its cost, the risks to investigators and what the party contended were slim chances of finding anything.

Indigenous groups pointed out the contrast with the case of Robert Pickton, a serial killer in British Columbia, who had preyed on women, mostly Indigenous, in an impoverished Vancouver neighborhood.

In 2002, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned his pig farm near Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, into the site of Canada’s largest crime scene investigation. Mr. Pickton was eventually convicted of killing six women, although he boasted of killing dozens more.

The identification of Ms. Harris’s remains was announced in a statement Friday by the New Democratic Party government, which had promised during the campaign to search the landfill. The party’s leader is Wab Kinew, the first Indigenous person to serve as a provincial premier.

“Please keep our families in your hearts tonight and every day going forward as we trust this process,” Ms. Harris’s daughter, Cabria, wrote in a social media post. “It is a very bittersweet moment.”

Ms. Contois’s remains were recovered in 2022. Evidence had suggested that the remains of Ms. Harris and Ms. Myran could be at Prairie Green. The provincial government announced late last month that the police had found “potential human remains in the search material” at the landfill.

In Manitoba’s legislature, the Progressive Conservatives’ interim leader apologized this week for the party’s decision to not launch a search.

“We lost our way in regards to empathy and also lost our way in regards to closure being brought forward to the families of the victims,” the leader, Wayne Ewasko, said.

Cambria Harris, in a social media post, rejected the apology.

“Unless your actions want to prove me otherwise, anything you are saying right now is mere words,” she wrote.

China announced tariffs of up to 100 percent on canola, pork and other foods from Canada on Saturday, in retaliation for Canada’s decision last August to collect steep taxes on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum.

The Chinese tariffs, which take effect on March 20, were also a clear warning to Canada — and, indirectly, Mexico — not to cooperate with the United States on trade. The Trump administration, like the Biden administration before it, has been demanding that Canada and Mexico not serve as back doors for low-cost Chinese goods to enter the U.S. market under North American free trade agreements.

China’s State Council Tariff Commission announced on Saturday that it would impose tariffs of 100 percent on canola oil, which is Canada’s largest export to China, and on peas, and 25 percent on Canadian pork and seafood. The commission said the measures were in response to Canada’s 100 percent tariffs on electric cars from China and its 25 percent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, which took effect in October.

China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a separate statement that “China urges Canada to immediately correct its wrong practices, lift restrictive measures and eliminate adverse effects.”

The Canadian government had no immediate comment.

The Chinese agencies’ statements were carefully worded to comply with World Trade Organization rules and did not mention any effort to influence Canada or Mexico during their current trade discussions with the United States. But a commentary released by China’s state television left little doubt that a key goal for China is dissuading officials in Ottawa and Mexico City from acceding to American pressure for higher Canadian and Mexican tariffs on Chinese goods.

The Chinese tariffs are “a powerful countermeasure to Canada’s wrong choice, and a strong warning to some countries that intend to impose additional tariffs on China in exchange for the United States not to impose additional tariffs on them,” China Central Television said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced tariffs on imports from China last year, partly to protect heavy government-supported investments by automakers in electric car factories in Canada. But there were also growing concerns and complaints from the Biden administration — recently echoed by the Trump administration — that Chinese goods were flooding into Canada.

Partly because of that influx from China, Canadian steel mills, aluminum producers and other manufacturers rely heavily on the American market for their sales, taking advantage of duty-free shipments. Canada and Mexico have both had steeply rising trade surpluses recently with the United States.

By imposing tariffs on Canada’s extensive shipments of canola and other agricultural products to China, Beijing’s leaders have sent a pointed reminder that China is also a large market.

Canada exported $3.29 billion worth of canola, also known as rapeseed and used in animal feed and cooking, to China last year, which was 13.4 percent of Canada’s overall exports to China. Canadian exports of rapeseed to China surged last autumn as traders rushed to sell supplies to Chinese stockpiles before tariffs could take effect.

The Chinese government had said in late September that it would take up to a year to decide how to respond to the Canadian tariffs. It decided to act sooner after President Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs this week on imports from Canada and Mexico but then quickly suspended them for cars and many other goods.

China may have a little more trade leverage with Canada than with Mexico. For each dollar of Canadian or Mexican goods that China imports, China sells $3 of goods to Canada and almost $5 of goods to Mexico.

China’s exports to Mexico have doubled since 2019 as gasoline-powered Chinese cars in particular have rapidly increased their sales there at the expense of American and European manufacturers with factories in Mexico.

China’s action on Saturday is certain to reawaken unpleasant memories in Canada about a similar Chinese tariff on Canadian canola for two years starting in February 2019. China imposed that tariff after the Canadian authorities detained Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, on a warrant from the United States.

China also imprisoned two Canadians then under harsh conditions, while Canada allowed Ms. Meng to live in a Vancouver mansion while awaiting a decision on her legal status. The United States, Canada and China eventually worked out a deal in which all three detainees were allowed to return to their home countries, but public opinion of China in Canada soured considerably during the dispute.

Amy Chang Chien contributed research.

The daughter of the convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot, whose trial horrified France as it detailed his years of abusing his wife with strangers, filed a police complaint against him this week that accused him of drugging and raping her as well.

Mr. Pelicot was found guilty last December of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, for about a decade, and inviting dozens of men to their home in southern France to rape her along with him. Fifty other men were also found guilty, mostly for raping or sexually assaulting Ms. Pelicot while she was in a deeply sedated state.

The four-month trial ignited deep discussion in the country about rape culture, the understanding of consent and the widespread use of basic sleep and anti-anxiety drugs to prey on people — a predation strategy that in France is called chemical submission.

During the trial, the Pelicots’ daughter, Caroline Darian, confronted her father twice, saying she was sure he had drugged and also raped her. Mr. Pelicot repeatedly denied that he had drugged or even touched his daughter, let alone raped her.

Prosecutors did not charge Mr. Pelicot with drugging or abusing his daughter last year. The complaint Ms. Darian filed this week will be examined by a prosecutor, who will decide whether there is enough evidence or not to indict Mr. Pelicot on new charges.

Mr. Pelicot was also found guilty last year of taking intimate photos of his daughter and daughters-in-law. Investigators found about 20,000 photos and videos investigators on his computers and hard drives that documented many of the hundreds of rapes he orchestrated on his sedated wife, and which allowed the police to identify other rapists.

There were also images taken at different times that captured his daughter sleeping in underwear that she said was not hers, with the covers pulled back and the lights on.

His explanations for the photos changed during the trial. He variously said that he had not taken the photos, that he did not believe they were of her, and that he had taken them because he was being blackmailed.

Ms. Darian, who goes by a pen name, had hoped that her accusations during last year’s trial would be examined in detail, she said in an interview this week.

“I hoped to get the truth,” she said. “That never happened.”

She added, “I can’t stop there. It’s not principle, because my case was not investigated as it should have been.”

Florence Rault, a lawyer hired by Ms. Darian to work on a new case, said there was evidence that had not been examined by investigators in last year’s trial.

“There are elements that were absolutely not brought to light, that’s very clear. They erased part of the file,” she said.

Mr. Pelicot’s lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, said she was not surprised but had yet to see the complaint that Ms. Rault said contained 10 charges including rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and drugging someone against their will.

Already France’s most infamous sexual predator, Mr. Pelicot has been indicted for two other cold cases: the rape and murder of a then 23-year-old woman in 1991, and the attempted rape of a then 19-year-old woman in 1999.

Both women were real estate agents attacked by a prospective client using a blade, and drugging them with ether while viewing properties. Mr. Pelicot admitted to drugging one of the women, but denied any involvement in the murder, according to investigative documents read out in court during the trial last year.

Ségolène Le Stradic contributed reporting.