Ukraine
Deporting the Disabled
Over one year, reporters have tracked what happened to the forcibly deported, disabled residents of the Oleshky boarding school. We have followed the desperate attempts to bring them home and identified which Russian officials are responsible for abusing their rights.
Syria, Ukraine and a Would-Be Assassin
I got in touch with Ryan Routh through one of the posters he had spread around town in Kyiv. I was a reporter there and had noticed his posters and the Syrian flag and was curious what it was about. When we spoke on the phone, he did not beat around the bush. He claimed to have over 200 Syrian military men who were ready to go to Ukraine and fight the Russians. He just needed help bringing them to Ukraine.
How Ukraine Caught Putin’s Forces Off Guard in Kursk — And Why
Ukrainian border raids into Russia are nothing new, although none has been undertaken with the type of forethought and ambition shown in the Kursk campaign. In under a week, Ukraine may have taken more of Russia than its adversary took of Ukraine in the entirety of 2024.
Ukrainian Ecologists Document What They Say Is Russian Ecocide
The attack on the Kakhovka Dam by Russian occupying forces sent contaminated floodwaters measuring trillions of gallons into the Black Sea. It was the worst blow yet to the environment in a war that has ravaged Ukraine’s ecology and is considered one of the worst human-caused natural disasters of all time. Since October, a Ukrainian team of prosecutors, ecologists and scientists has been regularly testing the area as part of efforts to build a case against Russia and charge it with ecocide.
Moscow in Exile — with Julia Ioffe
“It was easy for Russians to push the war off to the edge of their minds, but now it has come home to them.” Russian-American journalist and author Julia Ioffe talks to New Lines’ Amie Ferris-Rotman about Putin’s mobilization and the future of Russia.
How the Pro-Putin West Is Coping With Russian Defeat in Ukraine
Not everyone in the West believes Putin’s war in Ukraine is bad. Kyiv’s counteroffensive created alternative theories.
Estonia: Warning the World About Russia
No Estonian needs to be told what occupation is like or what it does to a nation. None requires a tutorial about what Josef Stalin did to their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents in 1941 and 1949, or to be reminded of those events’ gruesome parallel to what Putin is today doing to Ukrainian families. Kallas’ mother, for instance, spent a good portion of her childhood in Siberian exile, after the Soviets deported her via cattle car at only six months old with her mother and grandmother.