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The Ukrainian Schoolmaster Teaching History to His Invaders (Gift Article) Vitalii Dribnytsia engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his more important audience is Ukrainians themselves.

The Ukrainian Schoolmaster Teaching History to His Invaders

Vitalii Dribnytsia, a history teacher, engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his main audience is Ukrainians themselves.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...

Ukrainians Mourn Many Killed in Russian Strike Near Playground (Gift Article) A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children. The attack was a painful reminder that a cease-fire remains as distant as ever.

Where Ukrainian Children Once Played, Piles of Toys Memorialize the Dead

A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children — a painful reminder that a cease-fire remains as distant as ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/w...

How Ukraine Pitched Trump on a Deal for Critical Minerals (Gift Article) President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.

Trump's demand to trade U.S. aid for Ukraine's minerals came after Zelensky and his government touted lucrative energy deals to appeal to the Trump team.

American businessmen have expressed interest, including a wealthy friend of Trump, Ronald Lauder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...

Standoff at Ukrainian Procurement Agency Threatens to Disrupt Weapons Supply Ukraine’s defense minister fired the head of a state agency that procured over $7 billion in armaments last year, citing “unsatisfactory” results. She says the move is illegal and vows to stay in her ...

Ukraine’s defense minister fired the head of the weapons procurement agency, citing “unsatisfactory” results. She says the move is illegal and vows to stay in her post.

The dispute threatens to weaken an organization that bought over $7 billion in weapons last year.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/w...

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — But It’s Still Losing the War

Our story about estimates of Ukrainian losses, and how they compare with Russia's.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/w...

A Crucial Coal Mine in Ukraine Under Attack by Russian Forces Finally Shuts Down The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

Ukraine shut down its last operational coking coal mine — crucial for its steel industry and, ultimately, its war effort — because of the fighting.

It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/w...

Photograph Revives Ukraine-Russia Culture War An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity.

The Painting, the Photograph and the War for Ukraine’s Culture

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/w...

Amid Russian Attacks, Ukraine Seeks New Ways to Power Its Cities The Ukrainian energy network has been so battered by Russian attacks that officials are seeking out new options to prevent a crisis, like renting floating power plants and scavenging scrapped ones fro...

Ukraine's grid has been so battered by Russian attacks that officials are turning to unconventional options to prevent a crisis: renting floating power plants, scavenging a scrapped one from Lithuania and requesting a U.N. presence at critical substations.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/w...

Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine But many European leaders say that with no sign that Russia is interested in peace, it is too early to discuss the presence of peacekeeping forces.

Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/w...

Lessia Oukraïnka : un grand nom de la culture européenne sort de l’oubli L’écrivaine ukrainienne (1871-1913), militante pour l’indépendance de son pays, pionnière du féminisme, a été « purgée » en URSS. En Ukraine, l’agression russe la remet au premier plan. Un recueil de ...

Lessia Oukraïnka, écrivaine ukrainienne (1871-1913), militante pour l’indépendance de son pays, pionnière du féminisme, a été « purgée » en URSS.

L’agression russe la remet au premier plan.

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Cajole, Plead and Flatter: Ukraine Makes Its Case to Trump Using diplomacy, flattery and the occasional shot in the dark, Ukraine is doing everything it can to win over President-elect Donald J. Trump to its side.

A chance meeting with Donald Trump in Paris. An appeal to his transactional nature with an offer for Ukrainian critical minerals. Even the suggestion that he should win a Nobel Peace Prize.

How Ukraine makes its case to the President-elect.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/w...