SCOOP: Paul Manafort has assembled a team of Trump allies — including Chris LaCivita & Tony Fabrizio — & is looking to advise opposition & rightwing populist campaigns around the world. nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/…

Ukraine shut down its last operational coking coal mine — crucial for its steel industry and, ultimately, its war effort — because of the fighting. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates. nytimes.com/2025/01/15/wor…

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — But It’s Still Losing the War Our story with Anatoly Kurmanaev trying to estimate Ukrainian losses, and how they compare with Russia's. nytimes.com/2025/01/23/wor…

Standoff at Ukrainian Procurement Agency Threatens to Disrupt Weapons Supply nytimes.com/2025/01/27/wor…

Trump said he wants to trade Ukraine’s rare earth minerals for more U.S. aid -- and Kyiv appears ready for a deal. nytimes.com/2025/02/03/wor…

Trump's demand to trade U.S. aid for Ukraine's minerals came after Zelensky and his government touted lucrative energy deals to appeal to the Trump team. American businessmen have expressed interest, including a wealthy friend of Trump, Ronald Lauder. nytimes.com/2025/02/12/wor…

Final texts show warmth and love kept alive for soldiers and their partners and the pain of loss, in a story of a sad Valentine's Day for too many people in Ukraine Constant Méheut Daria Mitiuk nytimes.com/2025/02/14/wor…

Scoop: A new U.S. draft agreement on Ukraine's natural resources includes terms almost identical to the ones Kyiv rejected a week ago as too onerous. Some of the terms appear even tougher than in a previous draft. nytimes.com/2025/02/22/wor…

Where Ukrainian Children Once Played, Piles of Toys Memorialize the Dead A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children — a painful reminder that a cease-fire remains as distant as ever. nytimes.com/2025/04/09/wor…

The Ukrainian Schoolmaster Teaching History to His Invaders Vitalii Dribnytsia, a history teacher, engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his main audience is Ukrainians themselves. nytimes.com/2025/04/17/wor…

Satellite Images Suggest a Russian Plan to Restart Seized Ukrainian Nuclear Plant nytimes.com/2025/05/27/wor…

Amid Russian Strikes, a Remote Corner of Ukraine Beckons nytimes.com/2025/06/11/wor…

Ukraine approved today the first steps to allowing private investors to mine a major state-owned lithium deposit. Kyiv is trying to show the Trump administration that it can deliver on the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/wor…

A family of five Ukrainians was killed by an Iranian missile strike in Israel earlier this month, in a tragic intersection of two wars. They had fled war in Ukraine. It caught up with them in Israel. nytimes.com/2025/06/26/wor…

Russia Seizes Key Lithium Field in Challenge for U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal The capture highlights a core problem in the agreement: The more territory Moscow grabs, the fewer resources Kyiv can offer to Washington. nytimes.com/2025/06/27/wor…

Russia is pressing its advantage on the battlefield before the Trump-Putin summit. Its forces have broken through a section of Ukraine's defensive lines near Pokrovsk and advanced roughly 10 miles in recent days. nytimes.com/2025/08/12/wor…

Ukraine's frantic week of diplomacy as it tried to avoid being sidelines in peace talks. Zelensky spoke with nearly 30 world leaders, while his top advisers met online and in person with senior European and American officials. nytimes.com/2025/08/14/wor…