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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 - [...]