Ukraine’s top military commander signaled on Saturday morning that the nation’s forces were ready to launch their long-anticipated counteroffensive following months of preparations, including recently stepped-up attacks on logistical targets as well as feints and disinformation intended to keep Russian forces on edge. “It’s time to get back what’s ours,” Ukraine’s supreme military commander, Gen. […]
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Ukraine’s First Lady Visits Seoul, Requesting Nonlethal Military Aid
Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, met with President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea on Tuesday to request nonlethal military aid, using a visit to Seoul to stress the need for “something more radical” than just humanitarian support to end Russia’s invasion of her country. Ms. Zelenska thanked Mr. Yoon for the humanitarian and economic […]
Ukraine’s Advances Near Bakhmut Expose Rifts in Russian Forces
The Ukrainian Army is advancing in attacks near the eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian commanders said on Friday, in fighting that has shifted the front line only slightly but is exposing fissures, confusion and alarm among Russia’s forces in the war. Russia’s pro-war bloggers were quick to claim that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive had begun, but […]
Deadliest Russian Attack in Months on Ukraine’s Cities Kills at Least 25
Dmytro raced to the room where two of his children had been sleeping, after a Russian missile thundered into his apartment building in Uman, Ukraine, before dawn on Friday. He forced the door open and stared into oblivion. “There was no room behind the door. Just a cloud of fire and smoke,” he said. By […]
The Latest: War in Ukraine: Leader of Russian Mercenary Group Affirms Ukraine’s Hold on Bakhmut
BEIJING — President Emmanuel Macron of France and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, appealed on Thursday for a rapid return to peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, but Mr. Xi did not indicate whether he would use his close relationship with Moscow to push Russia to negotiate. Greeted with great pomp at the […]
Front Line Shifts in Russia and Ukraine’s Bakhmut Battle, Analysts Say
Ukraine insisted on Saturday that its forces were fending off relentless Russian attacks in Bakhmut, even as Western analysts said that Moscow’s forces had captured most of the embattled city’s east and established a new front line cutting through its center. Gradual Russian advances and a high number of Ukrainian casualties have fueled talk of […]
Whirring Into Action in Ukraine’s Skies
On a snowbound field, three Soviet-era helicopters were being readied for battle. Pilots and crew checked the flight plan for their next target, while technicians loaded slim gray rockets into launcher pods and stacked flares into racks behind the exhaust. One year into the war, against all the odds, Ukraine’s helicopter brigades are still operational. […]
At U.S. Base in Germany, Ukraine’s Military Conducts War Games
WIESBADEN, Germany — With winter almost behind them, senior American generals hosted Ukrainian military officials this week for a set of “tabletop” exercises designed to help Kyiv map out the next stage of its battle to reclaim territory from dug-in Russian troops. During a war-game session at the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, […]
Deadly Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South
Russia pounded the front line in Ukraine’s east and south with artillery strikes, Ukrainian military authorities said on Sunday, as Moscow pushed to break through Kyiv’s last remaining defenses around the city of Bakhmut and bombarded the Kherson region. The strikes came as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested in an interview broadcast on […]
NATO Defense Ministers Discuss Ukraine’s Battlefield Needs: Live Updates
Ukrainian service members moving equipment and parts from a broken down T-72 tank, left, to a functioning one, in the Donetsk region in early January.Credit…Nicole Tung for The New York Times BRUSSELS — With Russia bearing down on a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, NATO defense ministers are meeting on Tuesday to discuss Kyiv’s […]