Bombs and Explosives
A Farmer Holds On, a Fraying Lifeline for a Besieged Corner of Ukraine
SIVERSK DISTRICT, Ukraine — One of the few civilians still driving on a road leading toward the battle front, Oleksandr Chaplik skidded to a stop and leaned out the car window to swap information with a villager. He was taking supplies back to his village, one of a handful still in Ukrainian hands that lie […]
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A Russian Plane Crashed Into a House. Death Was Parceled Out Randomly.
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — It was Yulia Hrebnyeva’s fastidiousness that saved the lives of her family. First, she sent her husband outside to fix the lock on the door of their house. Then she brought her children down to the basement, insisting that they help her tidy the space where they had been sleeping every night […]
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Russian Guided Weapons Miss the Mark, U.S. Defense Officials Say
On Monday morning, as columns of armored vehicles and soldiers paraded through Moscow in celebration of Russia’s 1945 victory over Germany in World War II, one element of Russian military power was conspicuously missing: its warplanes. And though officials blamed their grounding on bad weather, Russian planes, pilots and air-to-ground weapons have all grossly underperformed […]
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‘Just Put the Body Outside.’ The Bloody Siege of Mariupol
LVIV, Ukraine — Marina Levinchuk said she received an alarming text message from the local authorities in the besieged city of Mariupol several days ago, before she decided to flee. “If somebody dies in your family,” she said, recalling the message in her own words, “just put the body outside, cover it, tie up the […]
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Hundreds of Students Are Stranded at a University in Ukraine
By Alexandra Eaton, Caroline Kim, Nailah Morgan, Rex Sakamoto and Robin Stein •March 3, 2022 Medical students at a university in Sumy, Ukraine, saw their school become a war zone overnight. They have no way to travel home and are stranded near the fighting.
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Ukrainians Set Sights on the New Year, Not a New War
KYIV, Ukraine — To gauge the mood in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, as Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops near the border and raised the specter of an invasion, look no further than the Dilettante coffee shop. The City Council designated its basement as a bomb shelter, along with 4,928 other underground spaces, […]
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