Editor’s Note: Putin told the world on Sept. 1 that Russian forces had taken Svyatohirsk. Six days later, Brig. Gen. Andriy Biletskyi walked across the town’s bridge on camera, unhelmeted, and told Russia’s leadership to take off their clown noses.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday warned that Russia’s attack on Kyiv, which utilized cluster munitions in a crowded residential area, may constitute a war crime under international law, citing the weapon’s indiscriminate nature and the high toll of civilian…
Russian launched a massive attack on Kyiv last night. I don’t know how many were killed or injured. Luke and Anya messaged us this morning and they’re ok. They ended up spending the night in the metro.Trump seems to have…
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Volodymyr Zelensky s situation room, where the Ukrainian President monitors developments in his country s war with Russia, is a windowless chamber, largely taken up by a rectangular conference table and ringed by blackened screens, deep inside the Presidential Administration…
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In a tiny garage on the outskirts of Kyiv, a group of mechanics pored over the carcass of a wrecked old Tesla, stripping it of parts. But instead of trying to repair the car, the men were busy extracting its…
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Sophisticated Western air-defense systems are the main reason the Ukrainian capital sleeps easier these days. Another is a bunch of machine gun-wielding judges on the rooftops of Kyiv.After Russia launched its full invasion of Ukraine, a group of current and…
There was a corpse on the street where I stayed in Kyiv, among the caryatids, 19th-century tenements and boho joints near the Golden Gate. It was an amiable June day, warm, fresh and cloudless, and most of the living wore…