Tag: Donetsk (Ukraine)

In Ukraine, Russia Is Inching Forward Death by Death

As the Russian military launched its offensive on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka last fall, Ukrainian troops noticed a change in their tactics as column after column of Russian forces were ravaged by artillery fire. Russian forces divided their infantry formations into smaller units to avoid being shelled, while the amount of Russian airstrikes […]

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‘They Come in Waves’: Ukraine Goes on Defense Against a Relentless Foe

His unit decimated by Ukrainian fire, the last surviving soldier in a Russian assault took cover in a shallow crater while Ukrainians shouted at him to surrender. As he lifted two grenades in the air, a Ukrainian drone swept in from above and exploded. Soon, the smoke cleared, a surveillance drone overhead showed, revealing the […]

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Deadly Blast Hits Market in Russia-Held Donetsk, Ukraine, Officials Say

At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when artillery shells hit a market in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, the pro-Moscow head of the region said, blaming Ukrainian forces for the strike. If confirmed, the episode would be one of the most serious in recent months involving civilians in […]

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Exhausted, on the Defensive and at ‘Hell’s Gate’ in Ukraine

ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine — Under the cover of darkness, leaning forward under the weight of packs and rifles, a squad of soldiers walked along a muddy lane and slipped into a village house. They were Ukrainian infantrymen of the 117th Separate Mechanized Brigade, assembling for a last briefing and roll call several miles from Russia […]

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A Trophy in Ruins: Evidence Grows That Russia Controls Marinka

The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that its troops were fighting “in the vicinities” of a village behind the eastern frontline town of Marinka, another strong indication that Kyiv’s forces have lost control of the town, more than a week after Moscow claimed to have seized it. Open-source maps of the battlefield also show that […]

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Russian Missile Kills Six Ukraine Postal Depot

A missile slammed into a postal depot overnight on the outskirts of Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing six workers and wounding at least 16 other employees, the Ukrainian authorities said. The depot was in Korotych, one of the city’s western suburbs, said Oleh Syniehubov, of the regional military administration, in a post on the […]

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Fierce Fighting Flares Around Eastern Ukrainian Town of Avdiivka

Russian and Ukrainian forces were locked in fierce fighting around the eastern frontline town of Avdiivka for a fourth straight day on Friday, in one of Moscow’s biggest military offensives in months. Ukraine’s top military command said that it had repelled more than 20 attacks over the past day around the town, a linchpin of […]

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‘Always Under Fire’: On the Battlefield With Ukraine’s Elite Troops

Photographs by Tyler Hicks By Marc Santora Marc Santora traveled with Ukrainian air assault brigades in eastern Ukraine. Tyler Hicks has documented the war from locations all along the front line. Oct. 11, 2023 On patrol on a ruined street in a ruined city in a ruined corner of eastern Ukraine, a sprawling war is […]

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U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Hospital in Germany Treats Troops Wounded in Ukraine

A group of Ukrainian Army soldiers pierced by Russian grenades and mortar shells arrived at a hospital recently in need of surgery. It would have been a familiar scene from the bloody war grinding on in Ukraine, except for two crucial differences: Most of the wounded soldiers were American, and so was the hospital — […]

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Evidence Suggests Ukrainian Missile Caused Market Tragedy

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 others. The weapon’s payload of metal fragments struck a market, piercing windows and walls and wounding some victims beyond recognition. Less than two hours later, […]

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‘We Are Accidentally Alive’: A Muslim Cleric Reflects on His War Experience

An activist Muslim cleric in Ukraine with an arrest warrant over his head, Said Ismahilov had no doubt of the danger as Russian troops advanced on the capital, Kyiv, at the start of the war last year. He was then living in the tranquil Kyiv suburb of Bucha, which lay right in the path of […]

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