Mariupol (Ukraine)
Last Stand at Azovstal: Inside the Siege That Shaped the Ukraine War
Soldiers wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags, some missing arms and legs, were hoisted into the helicopters, whose rotors never stopped spinning. They lifted off with eight or nine wounded fighters that day, Flint said, some of whom were conscious enough to show off cellphone videos of the intense fighting they had endured. The March […]
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Ukrainian Medic’s Months in Russian Cell: Cold, Dirty and Used as a Prop
KYIV, Ukraine — During the siege of Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, Russians pounded the city with artillery and blocked civilian escape routes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises of the war. As Ukrainian soldiers holed up in the Azovstal steel plant, the medic Yulia Paievska took on the dangerous work of evacuating families from […]
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Ukraine Signals End of Bitter Battle at Azovstal Steel Plant
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian authorities announced late Monday an end to their combat operation in the besieged city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters have held out for weeks in the face of near-constant Russian bombardment. The military ordered the remaining troops who had been sheltering beneath a steel factory there to focus on efforts […]
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Rescuing Ukrainian Family Recipes
Food memories from childhood summers tend to stick. Olga Koutseridi, a graduate student adviser at the University of Texas at Austin, formed hers in Mariupol, the small city on the Black Sea whose name has become synonymous with the worst devastation Russia has inflicted on Ukraine. While she was growing up, her family often moved […]
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Using Weapons From the West, Ukraine Seeks to Drive Back Russian Troops
KRAKOW, Poland — Ukrainian troops, emboldened by sophisticated weapons and long-range artillery supplied by the West, went on the offensive Friday against Russian forces in the northeast, seeking to drive them back from two key cities as the war plunged more deeply into a grinding, town-for-town battle. After weeks of intense fighting along a 300-mile-long […]
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Sisters Recount Escape From Mariupol as Russians Closed In
Vera and Nicole thought they had endured the worst of the war as Russia besieged their city, Mariupol, for weeks. The sisters helped neighbors bury neighbors, melted snow for drinking water and survived a bombardment that tore a hole in the ceiling of their home. But by mid-March, they knew it was time to leave. […]
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Putin Claims Victory in Mariupol, Calling Off Steel Plant Assault
The weeks of heavy fighting in Mariupol tied up a significant chunk of Russia’s combat power; at one point the battle was estimated by military analysts to include roughly 10 percent of all the Russian forces in Ukraine. On Thursday, a Russian video news report from the scene showed a convoy of armored vehicles moving […]
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Russia Embarks on a New, More Cautious Phase of Ukraine War
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Russia plunged into a new chapter of the Ukraine war on Tuesday, intent on capturing the eastern part of the country and crushing Ukrainian defenses without the same blunders that badly damaged Russian forces in the conflict’s initial weeks. “Another phase of this operation is starting now,” Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov […]
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In Mariupol’s Drama Theater, a Cry for ‘Mama!’ That Offered Brief Relief
LVIV, Ukraine — The explosion — deafening, blinding — collapsed the walls around them, and “the moments afterwards felt like an eternity, waiting to hear my child’s scream so I would know she was alive,” Viktoria Dubovitskaya said. “Maybe she will be without legs or arms, but just let her be alive.” Ms. Dubovitskaya, interviewed […]
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