Tag: ukraine
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How the War in Ukraine Ends | The New Yorker
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How the War in Ukraine Ends An eminent historian envisions a settlement among Russia, Ukraine, and the West. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-the-war-in-ukraine-ends Russia is much bigger; it has many more people. Also, the Russian leadership doesn’t really care about its people. If the Russian leadership throws twenty thousand untrained recruits into the meat grinder…
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Orion Magazine – A Failed Hunt for Meaning in Wartime Ukraine
Orion Magazine – A Failed Hunt for Meaning in Wartime Ukraine IN CHIȘINĂU, MOLDOVA, ON THE CRACKED asphalt of the wide but empty central street, a wrinkled old man sold a hammer, a rusty screwdriver, two Soviet via Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/ukraine-invasion-meaning-in-war/ N CHIȘINĂU, MOLDOVA, ON THE CRACKED asphalt of the wide but empty central street,…
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s Critical Visit to Washington, D.C. | The New Yorker
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Critical Visit to Washington, D.C. The Ukrainian President’s trajectory is often cast as surprising, but what makes him compelling as a political leader is the former comic’s talent for exposing the crux of the matter. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/volodymyr-zelenskys-critical-visit-to-washington-dc What had made everyone laugh was that the Presidents’ initial responses—and, indeed, the…
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Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Why Vladimir Putin Would Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-vladimir-putin-would-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine Even some of my smart colleagues had Russian propaganda playing on…
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Inside the U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine | The New Yorker
Inside the U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Biden Administration has provided valuable intelligence and increasingly powerful weaponry—a risky choice that has paid off in the battle against Putin. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/inside-the-us-effort-to-arm-ukraine Reznikov is certain that such deliveries are inevitable. “When I was in D.C. in November,…
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Kyiv’s Peace Is Destroyed | The New Yorker
Kyiv’s Peace Is Destroyed After repelling Russia’s assault earlier this year, the city awakens to missile strikes. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/kyivs-peace-is-destroyed the woman, whose name was Oleksandra, was laughing. “She said that Halloween is coming up and she’s already putting on her scary costume,” the medic said. Then he explained that pieces of shrapnel…
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An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For – The New York Times
An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For For an unconventional former Marine colonel, Ukraine represents the morally just war that eluded him his entire career. But how much can he and his military start-up help? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/world/europe/ukraine-war-americans.html Though Mr. Milburn is not involved in the actual fighting, he is constantly risking…
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The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich
Los Angeles Review of Books via Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-storykeeper-a-conversation-with-svetlana-alexievich/ I think that war is a measure of human horror. It is the biggest kind of horror that humanity can experience. For example, what’s happening in Ukraine today is an incredible force working upon us. In the first months when I started to…
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‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray – The New York Times
‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-phone-calls-ukraine.html Russian soldiers made thousands of calls from the battlefield in…
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Putin’s Escalation in Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy | The New Yorker
Putin’s Escalation in Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy The push to claim new territory and mobilize more troops is unlikely to reverse Russia’s losses on the battlefield—but it could move the war into its most dangerous phase yet. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-escalation-in-ukraine-is-a-losing-strategy We are fighting alone, whereas Ukraine has many allies. And, as the…
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What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy – The New York Times
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War Strategy A New York Times analysis of visual evidence from Ukraine showed widespread use by Russia of cluster weapons banned under certain international treaties. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-munitions-war-crimes.html The Times examined more than 1,000 pictures taken by its own photojournalists and wire-service photographers working on the…
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Ukraine War Deaths: A Special Report – The New York Times
Death in Ukraine: A Special Report From battlefields pockmarked by artillery shells to basements and backyards filled with civilian corpses, the war has exacted a staggering toll in lives lost. New York Times reporters who have covered the war present accounts of the many ways that death a Link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/18/world/ukraine-russia-news-deaths
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Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine | The New Yorker
Putin’s Pivot to a “Really Big War” in Ukraine As his invasion enters its fourth month, the Russian leader is preparing for the long haul. Meanwhile, the military is chattering about its losses, and putting out calls for supplies on Telegram. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/putins-pivot-to-a-really-big-war-in-ukraine Yes. Unfortunately, now they accept it. When we first…
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A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime | The New Yorker
A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/a-ukrainian-city-under-a-violent-new-regime After he came to, he was brought to the former base of the 25th Brigade, in Melitopol. Russian soldiers there were carrying out a process known since the Chechen wars of the nineties as…
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Bucha’s Month of Terror – The New York Times
Bucha’s Month of Terror We documented dozens of killings of civilians and interviewed scores of witnesses to uncover Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/11/world/europe/bucha-terror.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News Reporters and photographers for The New York Times spent more than a week with city officials, coroners and scores of witnesses in Bucha, uncovering new details of execution-style atrocities against civilians.…
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Trump and Ukraine: Former Advisers Revisit What Happened – The New York Times
‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’ Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine to Jan. 6. And they’re ready to talk. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/magazine/trump-putin-ukraine-fiona-hill.html Cheney took umbrage at Hill’s assessment. “So, you’re telling me you’re opposed to freedom and democracy,” she says he snapped. According…
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Will Mercenaries and Foreign Fighters Change the Course of Ukraine’s War? | The New Yorker
Will Mercenaries and Foreign Fighters Change the Course of Ukraine’s War? At a critical strategic juncture, non-state actors threaten to complicate the conflict. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/will-mercenaries-and-foreign-fighters-change-the-course-of-ukraines-war The infusion of outsiders and “irregular forces” could further complicate an already messy conflict, according to a report released on Monday by the Soufan Center, a nonprofit,…
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Collecting Bodies in Bucha | The New Yorker
Collecting Bodies in Bucha A team of Ukrainian volunteers say that, since the Russian retreat, they have picked up three hundred corpses. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/collecting-bodies-in-bucha After three weeks, Cherednichenko approached two soldiers outside her house. “I said to them, ‘I’m asking you as a mother,’ ” she told Havryliuk. “ ‘Is my son alive?’ ” One…
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‘This Is True Barbarity’: Life Under Russian Occupation – The New York Times
‘This Is True Barbarity’: Life and Death Under Russian Occupation The town of Trostyanets was occupied by Russian forces for a month before the Ukrainian military liberated it. Residents described weeks of hunger and horror. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/world/europe/ukraine-war-russia-trostyanets.html In the morgue, beside the three dead Russian soldiers, Dr. Volkova pointed to a body bag in the…
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Opinion | Stories From the Siege of Mariupol, Ukraine – The New York Times
Opinion | ‘At Night I Dream of Mariupol’: Nine Accounts of Surviving a Russian Siege Mariupol, Ukraine, has been encircled by Russian forces for about a month. We have collected the statements of people who recently escaped. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/opinion/international-world/mariupol-ukraine-russia.html Dead people: Everywhere. At first, people tried to bury in mass graves, but when the density…