Battle moves westward as Russia strikes Ukrainian base near Poland, killing at least 35

LVIV, Ukraine — Bringing the war closer to NATO territory, Russian fighter jets fired dozens of missiles Sunday at a Ukrainian military training base near the border with Poland, killing at least 35 people, injuring 134 others and rattling nerves in western Ukraine’s largest city.

With Russia’s unprovoked war against its Slavic neighbor midway through a third wrenching week, the Biden administration signaled Sunday that it would challenge any effort by Moscow to enlist Chinese help in evading the effects of Western sanctions that are pummeling Russia’s economy. High-level U.S.-Chinese talks were set for Monday in Rome.

Amid the intensifying conflict, Ukrainian authorities on Sunday reported the death of an acclaimed American journalist and documentary filmmaker, Brent Renaud, in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv that has been the scene of intensive Russian bombardment. Another journalist who was with him was wounded, they said.

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said Renaud “paid with his life” for documenting the suffering caused by the invasion.

In the Sunday morning