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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. [...]

Senator JD Vance of Ohio also claimed Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota had exaggerated his service record. Mr. Walz said a decision to retire and run for Congress came months [...]

Decades before embarking on a career in politics, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio had a brief stint in the Marine Corps. Going by James D. Hamel at the time, Mr. [...]

The gunman wore a T-shirt from a popular gun-themed YouTube channel. The creator said he was “just in disbelief.” The last shirt worn by the 20-year-old man who attempted to [...]

In photographs of the Secret Service snipers, they appeared to be using long-range and powerful rifles that likely fire.300 or.338 cartridges, commonly used by well-trained military snipers. One of the [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine probably changed the fates of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-military-draft-age.html, more than two years after Russia began its full-scale invasion. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/avdiivka-russia-ukraine-war.html on Saturday, [...]

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 [...]

Winter in Ukraine’s eastern steppe brings an inescapable cold. The wind blowing through damaged homes, the shattered windows, the chill in your bones — it feels as if it will [...]

It was just after 1 p.m. when the first of three artillery shells shrieked past Maryna Korifadze’s bomb shelter in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, landing nearby with a [...]

Un periodista de The New York Times, ex infante de marina, conversa con un militar que intenta entender su papel en el conflicto y la moralidad de la guerra. Lo [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

THE BATTLE: Ukraine’s counteroffensive, launched in early June, aims to reclaim land in the south and east of the country. Its goal in the south is to reach the Sea [...]

It was the first day of school in the geography teacher Larysa Kulyaba’s classroom in western Ukraine, but the number she wrote on the chalkboard Friday was not part of [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

El soldado ruso había sido capturado solo unos días después de haber llegado al frente de guerra en el este de Ucrania. Tenía poco entrenamiento, pero sabía cómo desmontar y [...]

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 [...]

When Russia captured Bakhmut in May after a bloody, monthslong campaign, some in Ukraine and the West feared that Moscow’s forces would use the city as a starting point for [...]

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 [...]

NESKUCHNE, Ukraine — 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 [...]

Los soldados ucranianos pensaron que los rusos se retirarían con rapidez de Neskuchne, un pequeño poblado en el sur de Ucrania, especialmente después de una descarga de artillería concertada y [...]

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. [...]

More than 40 people were wounded in the strike, which hit a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk’s city center at dinnertime. A Russian missile strike tore into a popular pizza restaurant [...]

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 [...]

ROMANIVKA, Ukraine — Just miles from the front line, news of the Wagner mercenary group’s standoff with the Russian military had reached the eastern Ukrainian village of Romanivka by Saturday [...]

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — As Ukrainian officials, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/21/world/russia-ukraine-news/zelensky-warns-that-the-counteroffensive-will-not-be-over-quickly, try to temper expectations around Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, the reality on the ground makes one thing clear: This will be a tough fight. [...]

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 [...]

En el bar de un pueblo ucraniano que estuvo ocupado por fuerzas rusas, los mensajes deshumanizadores de las paredes recuerdan crudamente que el Kremlin quiere acabar con Ucrania y su [...]

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 [...]

Algunos soldados en Ucrania usan parches con emblemas nazis, lo que podría impulsar la propaganda rusa y difundir imágenes que Occidente lleva medio siglo tratando de eliminar. KIEV, Ucrania — [...]

KYIV, Ukraine — As Ukraine navigates what https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/ukraine-war-counteroffensive-russia.html may be the early stages of a long-planned counteroffensive in the country’s south, the destruction of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam, which is [...]

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 [...]

While it remains unclear who damaged a key Russian-controlled dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, the episode comes in the midst of https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/ukraine-war-counteroffensive-russia.html the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, [...]

Ukrainian forces have stepped up artillery strikes and ground assaults in a flurry of military activity that American officials suggested on Monday could signal that Kyiv’s long-planned counteroffensive against Russia [...]

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 [...]

Ukrainian forces stepped up their artillery strikes and ground assaults in a flurry of offensive military activity that by Monday was raging along multiple sectors of the front line, American [...]

KYIV, Ukraine — To mount a successful counteroffensive after months of planning, Ukrainian troops will have to navigate mostly flat, unforgiving terrain and staunch Russian defenses. Military analysts and Western [...]

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 [...]