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In a military career that spanned three decades, Tim Walz achieved one of the highest enlisted ranks in the Army. Some peers took issue with the timing of his retirement. [...]

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 unit of international […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine probably changed the fates of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the draft age to 25 from 27 this month, more [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine probably changed the fates of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the draft age to 25 from 27 this month, more [...]

Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the hourly artillery duels, airstrikes and pitched fighting in the country's east and south have turned the more than 600-mile [...]

Drones have become a critical weapon for both sides, but a lack of coordination among troops has put Ukraine at a disadvantage. The Ukrainian soldier swore and tore off his [...]

Ukrainian officials are disheartened about stalled aid. The Pentagon wants Kyiv to heed its advice on how to fight. More than two years into their wartime alliance, the bond between [...]

Outside Avdiivka, Ukraine Built Only a Sparse, Rudimentary Defensive Line Russian forces continue to make small but rapid gains outside of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, attributable in part [...]

Russian forces have an unorthodox view of acceptable levels of military losses, with a willingness to expend troops and equipment to make even small gains on the battlefield. As the [...]

Kyle Parker says he delivered sniper gear as part of his unabashed support for Ukraine. Investigators say there may be ''counterintelligence issues.'' A senior Capitol Hill staff member who is [...]

After nearly two years and only scraps of information, a Ukrainian family still hopes their son, a marine captured by the Russians in Mariupol, will come home soon. His attempts [...]

The fall of Avdiivka to Russia may be more significant than it initially seemed as Ukraine struggles with morale and recruitment. Hundreds of Ukrainian troops may have been captured by [...]

After the capture of Avdiivka, Ukrainian forces will need a new defensive line in unforgiving terrain, while Russia tries to press its advantage. With the Russian military's capture of the [...]

A proposed bill on mobilization has become the focus of a debate as more men dodge the draft and calls rise to demobilize exhausted soldiers. When Russian troops and tanks [...]

The Ukrainian soldier stared at the Russian tank. It was destroyed over a year ago in the country's east and now sat far from the front line. He shrugged and [...]

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 battlefield, army recruiters [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington at a critical moment, both on the battlefield and on Capitol Hill. American and Ukrainian military leaders are searching for a new strategy that [...]

It was just after 1 p.m. when the first of three artillery shells shrieked past Maryna Korifadze's bomb shelter in Kherson, landing nearby with a bone-rattling crump. Her regular group [...]

A New York Times reporter who is a former Marine has a conversation with a Ukrainian sniper about morality in war. What you need to understand about a sniper mission [...]

As Ukraine pushed closer to Robotyne over the summer, the war crept closer. Shell craters pockmarked fields, trees and vegetation that concealed Russian trenches and positions were slowly sheared away. [...]

The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow's elite airborne units but the fabric looked almost translucent through the Ukrainian sniper's scope. The flag, atop a Russian-occupied [...]

The Sept. 6 missile strike on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine was one of the deadliest in the country in months, killing at least 15 civilians and injuring more than 30 [...]

Moscow's missile production now exceeds prewar levels, officials say, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter. Russia has managed to overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by the West to [...]

Billions are pouring into a clubby, secretive arms market. With Pentagon cash and unusually close Ukrainian military ties, Marc Morales has few peers. A half-dozen or so men gathered last [...]

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 by a new [...]

Ukrainian soldiers are trying to build on a new breach in enemy lines, but the battle will not be easy, military analysts said. Ukrainian forces, churning slowly forward after breaching [...]

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yurii Shyvalareporting from Lviv, Ukraine Sept. 1, 2023It was the first day of school in the geography teacher Larysa Kulyaba's classroom in western Ukraine, but the [...]

Ukraine's sense of urgency in obtaining the fighter jet reflects concerns about the war against Russia, but also the political calendar in the West. But training pilots and support crew [...]

On the second Independence Day since Russia's full-scale invasion, the mood in Kyiv was subdued. It has been a year since Ukraine first parked a parade of destroyed Russian tanks, [...]

American strategists say Ukraine's troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive's main front in the south. Ukraine's grinding counteroffensive is struggling to break through entrenched [...]

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 it's a way [...]

Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv's counteroffensive drags on. A lack of rapid medical care has added to the toll. The total number of [...]

In the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, with the invading Russian Army bearing down on Kyiv, the Ukrainian government needed weapons, and quickly. So its Ministry of Defense [...]

The headquarters of one of the battalions in Ukraine's 53rd Mechanized Brigade smells of freshly cut pine trees. The scents are from the wooden support beams in the labyrinth of [...]

Leave the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium and turn west onto rougher roads, where dead trees and twisted power lines give way to a string of shattered villages. These enclaves, [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine shared a video of a trip to Snake Island in the Black Sea, a symbol of his country's fierce resistance, as Russian shelling in the [...]

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 arches of a contemporary art center [...]

The Russian soldier was captured only days after arriving on the front line in eastern Ukraine. He had little training. But he knew how to disassemble and fire his rifle [...]

The Ukrainian counteroffensive faces an enemy nearly as daunting as the Russians: the terrain. The southern offensive could determine the fate of the war, many military analysts believe. Much of [...]

The Ukrainian soldiers thought the Russians would quickly retreat from Neskuchne, a tiny village in southern Ukraine, especially after a concerted artillery barrage and a rocket strike on their headquarters. [...]

The group played an outsize role in the campaign to take Bakhmut, Moscow's one major battlefield victory this year. The loss of the mercenary army could hurt Russia's ambitions in [...]

Moscow's forces remain uneven. But while bracing for a counteroffensive, they have improved discipline, coordination and air support, foreshadowing a changing war. KRAMATORSK, Ukraine -- The team of soldiers had [...]

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 culture. Sweeping out [...]

Experts suspect an explosion collapsed the dam on the Dnipro River. Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other, and residents downstream were forced to evacuate to escape the cascading waves. A [...]

Kyiv has not formally announced the start of operations. But on Tuesday, Ukraine said the Russians had blown up a dam on the Dnipro River, potentially imperiling residents and the [...]

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 -- Since Russia began [...]

The blast in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine killed a cafe owner who was registered to run in elections seen as an attempt to legitimize Moscow's illegal annexation of [...]

In Ukraine's capital, residents struggled with the question of who was to blame for a shelter closed off to two women and a child. In Russia, the authorities described evacuations [...]

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 battle for the [...]

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 window of a [...]