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☆ Inside the Hospitals Treating Brain Injuries in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Finbarr O Reilly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After a year of physical therapy, he still has limited mobility, and the shrapnel that his doctors deemed too dangerous to remove remains lodged in his head and neck. In January, he endured what is known as a brain prolapse, in which tissue and fluid bulged from the part of his skull where the bone was missing. His 10th brain surgery — to insert a titanium plate — repaired the damaged area and contained the swelling. He has since resumed his rehabilitation at a facility in western Ukraine.

Locations: Ukraine

The Ukrainian soldier stared at the Russian tank. It was destroyed over a year ago in the country’s east and now sat far from the front line. The soldier was not there for the tank’s engine or turret or treads. The metal would be cut and strapped as protection to Ukrainian armored personnel carriers defending the embattled town of Avdiivka, around 65 miles away. The need to cannibalize a destroyed Russian vehicle to help protect Ukraine’s dwindling supply of equipment underscores Kyiv’s current challenges on the battlefield as it prepares for another year of pitched combat.

Locations: Ukrainian, Avdiivka, Russian

But after the destruction of a major dam just downriver, that shimmering lake, one of Europe’s biggest, simply disappeared. For 60-plus years, the Bezhan family ran a fishing business on these shores. They bought boats, nets, freezers and enormous rumbling ice-making machines, and generation after generation made a living off the fish. But now there are no fish. Then it would take another 10 years for the fish to grow — for some species, 20.”

Persons: ”, Serhii Bezhan Locations: Ukraine

One summer evening as the sun sank behind the Dnipro River, the mammoth waterway that bisects Ukraine, Anatolii Volkov walked along a river beach, head down. A Ukrainian archaeologist, Mr. Volkov looked as if he was just taking a stroll. “Look at this,” he said. He bent down and picked up an object about two inches long. He rubbed his fingers over the grooves.

Persons: Anatolii Volkov, Volkov, ” Locations: Dnipro, Ukraine, Ukrainian

Three Russian attack helicopters swooped in low over the city of Kreminna, strafing Ukrainian frontline positions just outside the city. Russian drones circled overhead while Moscow’s ground forces fired heavy machine guns to flush out Ukrainians from foxholes hidden in the dappled light of the pine forest. As exploding artillery shells shook the ground around him on Saturday morning, Vlad, a 27-year-old Ukrainian drone operator, spotted a Russian armored personnel carrier bringing more troops to the battle. “They are constantly attacking us,” said Lt. Col. Matviychuk Oleh, a 49-year-old battalion commander with Ukraine’s 100th Territorial Defense Brigade. So far they have been able to prevent a major Ukrainian breakthrough.

Persons: Vlad, ”, Matviychuk Organizations: 100th Territorial Defense Brigade Locations: Russian, Kreminna, Ukraine, Ukrainian

More than two weeks later, the Kremlin disclosed that Mr. Prigozhin and other Wagner leaders had met with Mr. Putin for three hours in the days after the rebellion ended. “I think he probably feels under some pressure,” Mr. Moore said of Mr. Putin, speaking at the British ambassador’s residence in the Czech capital. Mr. Prigozhin is known to have spent several days in Russia afterward, and video posted on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday appears to show him in Belarus. “He is clearly under pressure,” Mr. Moore said of Mr. Putin. Mr. Cleverly said the rebellion underscored the falsity of Mr. Putin’s assertions that Russia would be more committed to a long war in Ukraine than the West would be.

Persons: Richard Moore, Vladimir V, Putin, Yevgeny V, Wagner, Prigozhin’s, Prigozhin, “, Mr, Moore, “ Prigozhin, ” Mr, ’, James, ”, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Politico, Kremlin, Mr, Prigozhin, The New York Times, ”, Russian Army, British, Aspen Security Locations: London, Prague, Russia, British, Czech, “, Belarus, Moscow, Belarusian, Minsk, Ukraine, Rostov, Afghanistan, Russian

Every morning at the stroke of nine, in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, the entire town square comes to a standstill for a moment of silence to mourn the war dead. Languid, operatic music flows from a speaker positioned on a wrought iron balcony overlooking the cobblestone square. For a few minutes, as the sun beams down and flags snap in the wind, everyone and everything stops. Chernivtsi, tucked into the southwest corner of Ukraine, hundreds of miles from the front, has never been hit by a missile — and it’s not small, 300,000 people. There are few checkpoints or military vehicles or clumps of young men in camouflage crowding the coffee machine at the supermarket — like there always are in Ukraine’s cities in the east, center and south.

Persons: there’s Organizations: Police Locations: Ukrainian, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

☆ Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jeffrey Gettleman | Finbarr O Reilly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If there is a symbol of Ukrainian insouciance in the face of clear and present danger, it might just be this city. Nikopol lies within four miles of the besieged nuclear plant, but if you arrived on Monday and took a walk around, you might be fooled into thinking things were normal. People waited at bus stops, lugged heavy plastic bags as they exited supermarkets, pushed strollers down sidewalks. Not only is Nikopol a hair’s breadth from the nuclear power plant, it also gets shelled nearly every day by Russian troops just across the river. But about half the city’s prewar population of 100,000 still lives here, and there was no visible exodus, despite all the recent warnings of impending doom.

Persons: ”, Maksym Baklanov, it’s Locations: Nikopol

It wasn’t even 8 a.m. and Captain Fritz, a Ukrainian infantry officer, had already smoked a half-dozen cigarettes. He’s 24, but his pale blue eyes seemed older than his years, reflecting the weariness of war but also maybe something else, perhaps a flicker of mischief. If he stood up, he could be easily shot by Russian snipers concealed in a thick tree line a few hundred yards away. The trench walls and mud floor shook from explosions, the steady pounding of Russian artillery that erupts each day at dawn with an almost absurd regularity. “See those bushes?” said Captain Fritz, who identified himself by his call sign, as many Ukrainian soldiers do.

Persons: Captain Fritz, ”, Fritz Locations: Ukrainian

☆ ‘We Have Fish, That’s Our Currency’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Megan Specia | Finbarr O Reilly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Just before midnight, David O’Neill navigated his trawler into the harbor in Union Hall, a small port in southwestern Ireland, the wake from the vessel sending tiny waves slapping against the pier. The crew swiftly unloaded their catch, using a crane to lift ice-packed crates of haddock and hake from the hold of the Aquila under bright spotlights. Less than an hour later, the Aquila would depart for its final trip. Two days later, the crew stripped the vessel’s contents — chains, buoys, ropes, steel cables, and hooks — and ejected them onto the pier, on their way to a shipyard to be scrapped.

Persons: David O’Neill, haddock, hake, Aquila Locations: Union, Ireland, Aquila

☆ Ukrainians Return Home, Renewed and Resigned
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Jeffrey Gettleman | Finbarr O Reilly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A new sound wafts through the open windows at night in this town near the front line: children hollering at each other down the block, even long after dark. It is remarkable — “Unrecognizable,” one city official said — how different this small town in eastern Ukraine feels from a year ago. Last summer, Pokrovsk was a spooky landscape of boarded up houses and bushy yards. Now it’s hard to take a few steps without passing someone on the sidewalk. Ukrainians are still dying in droves.

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