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Maria VarenikovaThe writer is a Kyiv-based freelance journalist, producer for NYTHalyna Vynokur, a clerk in a hardware store in Kyiv, was shouldering a firearm for the first time. Iryna Sychova, a...

It might seem like a huge distraction at the height of a full-scale war, not to mention a logistical nightmare: holding a presidential election as Russian missiles fly into the Ukrainian capital and...

They are made of plastic or plastic foam, weigh only a few pounds and are often launched simply by having a soldier throw them into the air, as if tossing a javelin.In a slow-moving counteroffensive...

Col Vitaly Tsyba, an infantry commander in the Ukrainian army, was too busy on Tuesday to follow news of the Nato summit.Bearded and grimy, he had returned to a base after several days in combat and...

Maria VarenikovaThe writer is a freelance journalist and producer for NYTAt night, she had looked at the twinkling lights of her home city, just a mile or so away but a world apart. For months, she...

The Ukrainian soldiers sped along a dirt road, their pickup truck bouncing over ruts, lest they become an easy target for Russian tanks across the Dnieper River.Nearby, Russian howitzers fired with...

Ukraine is bracing for the possibility that Russia will sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive as Moscow tries to turn the tide on the battlefield and limit political backlash at home, a...

As Ukrainian soldiers patrolled the streets of a small village they had retaken from the Russian army just days earlier, they found messages scrawled on walls and fences so dark and cryptic they...