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Tag: War and Armed Conflicts

For Ukraine, the Fight Is Often a Game of Bridges

KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — The pontoon bridge had been in place for barely a day. The Ukrainian Army rushed to move troops and equipment...

Crops ‘Stored Everywhere’: Ukraine’s Harvest Piles Up

A small army of combine harvesters rolled across an endless farm field on a recent afternoon in western Ukraine, kicking dust clouds into the...

The Role of Art in a Time of War

KYIV, Ukraine — You do not have to go far outside of Kyiv to see how the massacre of civilians and the trampling of...

Looming Question for Putin Opponents: Can You Change Russia From Jail?

Shortly after Russia shocked the world by attacking Ukraine on Feb. 24, Ilya V. Yashin, a local Moscow councilman and prominent opposition figure, decided...

Ukraine Tries to Make the Case That It Can Win the War

KYIV, Ukraine — Just weeks ago, Ukraine’s military was being pummeled relentlessly in the East, taking heavy casualties as it slowly gave ground to...

The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War

Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves. “​​I had the feeling in the first days, and even...

The Race to Free Ukraine’s Stranded Grain

KLAIPEDA, Lithuania — The Baltic Sea port has silos to store plenty of grain, railway lines to transport it there from Ukraine, where it...

Russians Crowdsource Supplies for Their Army in Ukraine

Natalia Abiyeva is a real-estate agent specializing in rental apartments in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow. But lately, she has been...

At Davos, a Referendum on the World Economic Forum

The small ski town of Davos, high in the Swiss alps, has heightened security measure in place during the annual meeting of the World...

Poor Countries Face a Mounting Catastrophe Fueled by Inflation and Debt

Before war ravaged Yemen, Walid Al-Ahdal did not worry about feeding his children. At his hometown near the Red Sea, his family grew corn,...

Russia Planned a Major Military Overhaul. Ukraine Shows the Result.

Army vehicles were so decrepit that repair crews were stationed roughly every 15 miles. Some officers were so out of shape that the military...

They Fell Deeply in Love in Bucha. One Russian Bullet Ended It All.

She grabbed his hands, crying, “Oleh, Oleh.”“The Russians were sitting on the curb, drinking water from plastic bottles, just watching me,” she said. “They...

How the Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder Became Putin’s Man in Germany

But it was more than that, Mr. Schröder said. “I had been chancellor. I couldn’t go back to being a lawyer dealing with rental...

One Ukrainian War Casualty: The World’s Largest Airplane

BUCHA, Ukraine — The day war broke out, one of Ukraine’s most decorated pilots stepped onto the balcony of his three-story home and felt...

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