Wars

Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay.

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

For years, Adam Cvijanovic has been making giant murals in the military’s financial headquarters. The result is at once beautiful and unsettling.

The historian Stephen Kotkin on the state of the war and the dangers of a Russian Tet Offensive.

The Biden Administration calls for greater financial transparency around the world. This country could use more of it, too.

An eminent historian envisions a settlement among Russia, Ukraine, and the West.

In the capital, Ukrainians track the trajectory of Russian missiles on smartphone apps, but refuse to be defeated by fear.

A clamorous retrospective of the painter Robert Colescott, and “Women at War,” a show of contemporary Ukrainian artists, unsettle and inspire.

Following in the footsteps of Hitchens and Rushdie at the World Voices Festival, the writer muses on Russian fatalism, on printing a novel on sandwich-wrap paper in Kyiv, and on the lamentable deaths of his childhood pet hamsters.

How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol.

The correspondent Luke Mogelson talks about reporting from the front lines, how Ukrainians saved Kyiv, and the sense of unity that the conflict has created in the country.

Destruction, brutality, and terrible loss in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere in Ukraine.

When Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukrainians dropped everything to protect the city—and to ease one another’s suffering.

Andrey Kurkov writes about bombs, bees, and the ordinary business of being human in wartime.

In Brussels, two members of Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration, visiting to lobby for a Russian fossil-fuel ban, are feted with rosé from Champagne and squid pasta. In Ukraine, they’re internally displaced people worrying over alleged war crimes.

After eighty years, the site of a mass execution of Jews was about to be commemorated. Then Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The national identity the Russian President has helped promulgate—illiberal, imperial, resentful of the West—has played an essential role in his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes.

The aid offered by the West may help, but it cannot relieve Volodymyr Zelensky of the terrible predicaments he must manage in the weeks ahead.

With the help of a database launched by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, a YouTuber from Kyiv is calling strangers in Russia and telling them just what their boys in uniform are doing across the border.