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Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a [...]

Byline: David Guttenfelder, Yurii Shyvala and Thomas Gibbons-Neff President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine probably changed the fates of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the draft [...]

Byline: Emile Ducke, Oleksandr Naselenko and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the hourly artillery duels, airstrikes and pitched fighting in the country's east [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yurii Shyvala Drones have become a critical weapon for both sides, but a lack of coordination among troops has put Ukraine at a disadvantage. The Ukrainian [...]

Byline: Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Ukrainian officials are disheartened about stalled aid. The Pentagon wants Kyiv to heed its advice on how to fight. More than two [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Anatoly Kurmanaev Russian forces have an unorthodox view of acceptable levels of military losses, with a willingness to expend troops and equipment to make even small [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and David Guttenfelder After nearly two years and only scraps of information, a Ukrainian family still hopes their son, a marine captured by the Russians in Mariupol, [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt The fall of Avdiivka to Russia may be more significant than it initially seemed as Ukraine struggles with morale and recruitment. [...]

Byline: Constant Méheut and Thomas Gibbons-Neff A proposed bill on mobilization has become the focus of a debate as more men dodge the draft and calls rise to demobilize exhausted [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Ukrainian men are reporting incidents of wrongful draft notices, unprofessional medical commissions and coercive mobilization tactics. With Ukraine's military facing mounting deaths and a stalemate on the [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Thomas Gibbons-Neff President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington at a critical moment, both on the battlefield and on Capitol Hill. [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Oleksandr Naselenko and Emile Ducke It was just after 1 p.m. when the first of three artillery shells shrieked past Maryna Korifadze's bomb shelter in Kherson, landing [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Natalia Yermak and David Guttenfelder The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow's elite airborne units but the fabric looked almost translucent through the [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The legacy of World War II lingers in the Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it has been destroyed [...]

Byline: John Ismay, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Haley Willis, Malachy Browne, Christoph Koettl and Alexander Cardia The Sept. 6 missile strike on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine was one of the deadliest in [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Moscow's missile production now exceeds prewar levels, officials say, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter. Russia has managed to overcome [...]

Byline: Justin Scheck and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Billions are pouring into a clubby, secretive arms market. With Pentagon cash and unusually close Ukrainian military ties, Marc Morales has few peers. A [...]

Byline: Constant Méheut and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Ukrainian soldiers are trying to build on a new breach in enemy lines, but the battle will not be easy, military analysts said. Ukrainian [...]

Byline: Lara Jakes, Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Ukraine's sense of urgency in obtaining the fighter jet reflects concerns about the war against Russia, but also the political calendar in [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper and Thomas Gibbons-Neff American strategists say Ukraine's troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive's main front in [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The urge to play a violent video game in the midst of the most brutal land war in Europe since World War II may seem baffling. But [...]

Byline: Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv's counteroffensive drags on. A lack of rapid [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Natalia Yermak, Dzvinka Pinchuk, Yurii Shyvala and Mauricio Lima The headquarters of one of the battalions in Ukraine's 53rd Mechanized Brigade smells of freshly cut pine trees. [...]

Byline: Megan Specia and Thomas Gibbons-Neff A robust fund-raising operation has been critical in supplying Ukraine's military. But as the war drags on, contributions have lagged. Under the vaulted brick [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Natalia Yermak and Mauricio Lima Leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium and turn west onto rougher roads, where dead trees and twisted power lines give way [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak The Russian soldier was captured only days after arriving on the front line in eastern Ukraine. He had little training. But he knew how [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Josh Holder and Marco Hernandez The Ukrainian counteroffensive faces an enemy nearly as daunting as the Russians: the terrain. The southern offensive could determine the fate of [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Yurii Shyvala and David Guttenfelder The Ukrainian soldiers thought the Russians would quickly retreat from Neskuchne, a tiny village in southern Ukraine, especially after a concerted artillery [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Julian E. Barnes and Natalia Yermak Moscow's forces remain uneven. But while bracing for a counteroffensive, they have improved discipline, coordination and air support, foreshadowing a changing [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff At a bar in a once-occupied Ukrainian village, dehumanizing messages on the walls were a stark reminder that the Kremlin wants to stamp out Ukraine and its [...]

Byline: Andrew E. Kramer, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt Kyiv has not formally announced the start of operations. But on Tuesday, Ukraine said the Russians had blown [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Troops' use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate. KYIV, Ukraine - [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Seizing the city took 10 months and untold lives. Most likely, analysts say, Russia's exhausted forces will settle into a defensive crouch, preparing for Ukraine's counteroffensive. The [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Just weeks before President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visited the city of Bakhmut in December, a soldier with the military call sign 'Bear' stared out from the [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter [...]

Byline: Helene Cooper, Michael Schwirtz and Thomas Gibbons-Neff A huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia's air force from changing the course of the war, according to U.S. [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Michael Schwirtz and Eric Schmitt The information, exposed on social media sites, also shows that U.S. intelligence services are eavesdropping on important [...]

Byline: Justin Scheck and Thomas Gibbons-Neff People who would not be allowed anywhere near the battlefield in a U.S.-led war are active on the Ukrainian front, with ready access to [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Lara Jakes and Eric Schmitt The military is using thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold the eastern city, which could jeopardize a [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Justin Scheck and Boryana Dzhambazova Ukraine has long relied on Russian weapons for its armed forces. Now it is scrambling to get Soviet-era ammunition for those weapons, [...]

Byline: Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Thomas Gibbons-Neff The battle in the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut is growing in importance, as both sides pour forces into the battle. Russian forces [...]

Byline: Lara Jakes, Alan Yuhas and Thomas Gibbons-Neff 'We have to make time our weapon,' President Volodymyr Zelensky declared as Ukrainians girded for an expected Russian offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky, [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous, Ronen Bergman, John Ismay and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia. WASHINGTON - The [...]

Byline: Megan Specia, Ivan Nechepurenko and Thomas Gibbons-Neff With a harsh winter putting sweeping offensives on hold, the war has shifted back to bloody battles of attrition like the one [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak A Ukrainian unit is tinkering with tape, a scale, a 3-D printer and other items to turn a fragmentation grenade into a tank-killer. It's [...]

Byline: Steven Erlanger and Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Western allies' provision of infantry fighting vehicles signals their support for new offensives in coming months, analysts said. BRUSSELS - They will soon [...]

Byline: Alan Yuhas, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yousur Al-Hlou Ukrainian artillery targets Russian soldiers by pinpointing their phone signals. Despite the deadly results, Russian troops keep defying a ban on cellphone [...]

Byline: Natalia Yermak and Thomas Gibbons-Neff In winter, during wartime, any number of obstacles can make life difficult for firefighters in Lyman. Cellphone service is so bad in this eastern [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Natalia Yermak and Tyler Hicks It takes just over a minute to microwave the mini pizza that Andriy Shved sells in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Tyler Hicks BAKHMUT, Ukraine - Wind howled through leafless trees and through the windows of the blown-out apartment building as the surveillance team marched up flights [...]