Tag: Kupiansk (Ukraine)

U.S. Defense Secretary Visits Ukraine in Show of Support

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III visited the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday, vowing support for government at a time when progress in the war against Russia as well as U.S. military aid have both stalled. Mr. Austin was greeted by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget A. Brink, according to a photograph he […]

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Russia Presses Ahead With Offensive Push in Eastern Ukraine

Russia has dispatched thousands of soldiers backed by heavy armor and artillery to try to drive Ukrainians from deeply entrenched positions in eastern Ukraine, in what military analysts said is the Kremlin’s largest offensive push since its failed campaign last winter. The willingness to throw its reserves into costly operations around the eastern cities 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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From Kupiansk to Kherson, Diverse Battlefields Make Up the War in Ukraine

Along the southern reaches of the Dnipro River, Ukrainian forces are staging amphibious assaults on Russian positions across the river from around the city of Kherson, forcing Russia to deploy already-stretched units to prevent Ukraine from gaining a foothold on the eastern bank. Nearly 1,000 miles to the north, it’s the Russians who are on […]

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Ukrainians Embrace Cluster Munitions, but Are They Helping?

The images of Russian troops retreating from a village in Ukraine under fire leave little doubt of the impact of cluster munitions. Soldiers running from a constellation of at least a dozen explosions around them. An armored vehicle speeding down a road before being hit in a cascade of simultaneous eruptions salting the surrounding ground. […]

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