On the day of her wedding, the bride picked out white peonies for her bouquet, wore a dress and said yes. A charity gives weddings to couples in the army. Cassandra Vinograd nytimes.com/2023/07/28/wor…

The slow advances of the past two months have made Ukrainian soldiers skeptics of new tactics the U.S. pushed while providing weapons. ‘They fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the enemy there is not like the Russians,” says one soldier Carlotta Gall nytimes.com/2023/08/07/wor…

Russia’s war in Ukraine spreads over the Black Sea with naval blockades and new maritime weapons in surface drones. It has brought the war to oil markets. A full blockade of Russian exports could raise prices $15 a barrel Marc Santora Steven Erlanger nytimes.com/2023/08/08/wor…

A weapons trader President Zelensky once called a symbol of corruption has become the largest private arms dealer for the Ukrainian military, showing how his government turned to any means necessary to obtain weapons and ammo. Justin Scheck Thomas Gibbons-Neff nytimes.com/2023/08/12/wor…

An unseen army of mechanics keeps Ukraine’s tanks and armored vehicles in the fight, often doing jobs in hiding in forests near the front. ‘In this way, they become indestructible’ a mechanic says of repairs. Sashko Chubko Carlotta Gall nytimes.com/2023/08/15/wor…

Even if the counteroffensive has yielded only mixed results so far, Ukrainian officers are almost invariably upbeat in interviews, describing previous periods as being tougher than this one. Carlotta Gall nytimes.com/2023/08/20/wor…

By normal standards, training of Ukrainian F-16 pilots is proceeding at lightning speed. Still, the first jets are expected in Ukraine only in July. Lara Jakes nytimes.com/2024/03/11/wor…

There are many ways to kill and be killed in Ukraine’s war with Russia, but Ukrainian soldiers say that glide bombs are perhaps the most terrifying. A look at the effect of glide bomb strikes on Ukrainian tactics in the city of Toretsk. Marc Santora nytimes.com/2024/08/27/wor…

Ukraine sent waves of drones to attack power plants, oil refineries and other sites across Russia in a ferocious battle being waged by both sides against each other’s energy facilities. Marc Santora nytimes.com/2024/09/01/wor…

Putin articulates the idea that he has allowed an incursion into Russia to proceed without diverting troops from the "first-priority goal" of capturing territory in Ukraine. Marc Santora Anton Troianovski nytimes.com/2024/09/05/wor…

On a visit to Kyiv, Blinken alluded to anxieties in Ukraine over the U.S. election by offering assurance that support "doesn’t depend on any one country, any one party, any one election." Edward Wong nytimes.com/2024/09/11/wor…

Disinformation is ramping up before a vote in Moldova on Sunday to include EU ambitions in the Constitution, with a trail of funding for anti-EU fake news sites, posters and fliers tracing back to Russia. Steven Lee Myers nytimes.com/2024/10/17/wor…

The scale of Russia's forced adoptions of Ukrainian children is larger than previously documented, an analysis by war crimes investigators shows Carlotta Gall nytimes.com/2024/12/03/wor…

Georgian 🇬🇪#LGBTQ community look to an uncertain future. My reportage from #Tbilisi for TheBlackSea about the new legal bans and violence: theblacksea.eu/stories/the-en…

Trump is taking office with much of his Ukraine strategy still vague, despite the campaign pledge to quickly end the war. "The less we know what he is up to, the more he can improvise,” one analyst says. Peter Baker nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/…

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…

In an interview and a visit to a nuclear submarine, Starmer shows Britain's military deterrent against Russia and argues for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine. Without enforcement, Putin will "he’ll breach the deal in due course" Starmer says. Mark Landler nytimes.com/2025/03/23/wor…

Russian foreign-policy figures suggest the Kremlin sees negotiations over Ukraine and U.S.-Russia ties as running on two separate tracks. It is drawing out cease-fire talks to seize the benefits of a thaw, while maintaining its war aims. Anton Troianovski nytimes.com/2025/03/24/wor…

The United States spent millions in federal grants to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in Gaza -- but in the province in Mozambique, not the Palestinian territory. How disinformation seeps into the public discourse. Steven Lee Myers nytimes.com/2025/03/24/bus…

In ceasefire talks so far, incremental deals have largely been a way for Russia to win concessions from Ukraine and good will from a White House as the Kremlin plays for time and gets the upper hand. Paul Sonne nytimes.com/2025/03/26/wor…