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☆ Highlights From the 2024 Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Highlights From the 2024 Paris Olympics Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesSwimming, July 31 James Hill for The New York TimesBeach Volleyball, July 29 Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York TimesThe Paris Olympics promised to be memorable from the start: an opening ceremony and competitions on the River Seine; extensive security measures quieting a bustling city; the potential for equal gender representation among athletes for the first time. Through the disruptions and controversies, dreams realized and denied, photographers from The New York Times were there to capture the moments. Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesJames Hill for The New York TimesJames Hill for The New York TimesGabriela Bhaskar for The New York TimesTuesday, July 30A gold medal and merely making it to Paris are both worth celebrating. Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesGabriela Bhaskar for The New York TimesGabriela Bhaskar for The New York TimesDmitry Kostyukov for The New York TimesSaturday, July 27The opening ceremony flotilla docked, the athletes — and Celine Dion — dried off from the rain and the Games began. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York TimesDaniel Berehulak/The New York Times

Persons: Daniel Berehulak, James Hill, Gabriela Bhaskar, The New York Times Daniel Berehulak, New York Times Gabriela Bhaskar, Chang W, Lee, New York Times James Hill, The New York Times James Hill, The New York Times Gabriela Bhaskar, The New York Times Dmitry Kostyukov, you’ve, The New York Times Chang W, Simone Biles’s, Celine Dion — Organizations: New York Times, The New York Times, Volleyball, Paris Olympics, Tokyo Games, Games, Rugby, New York Locations: Paris

They first appeared as a cloud of dust on the horizon. A few seconds later, the motorcycles carrying Russian soldiers sped into view, zigzagging across a field, kicking up dust, attempting a noisy, dangerous run at a Ukrainian trench. “They moved fast, they spread out and they swerved,” said Lt. Mykhailo Hubitsky, describing the Russian motorcycle assault he witnessed. It’s a type of attack that has been proliferating along the frontline this spring, adding a wild new element to the already violent, chaotic fighting. These nonconventional vehicles have been turning up with such frequency that some Ukrainian trenches now overlook junk yards of abandoned, blown up off-road vehicles, videos from reconnaissance drones show.

Persons: ”, Mykhailo Hubitsky Locations: Ukrainian

Representatives from the warring nations held peace talks in the early weeks of the Russian invasion. It was the only time that Ukrainian and Russian officials are known to have engaged in direct peace talks. This includes the Crimean Peninsula, which Mr. Putin annexed in 2014 in a swift operation that he considers central to his legacy. At another point, Russia’s lead negotiator, Mr. Medinsky, interrupted a video conference by claiming that Mr. Putin was phoning him directly. There were signs that Mr. Putin was micromanaging not only the Russian invasion but also the peace talks.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, —, Putin’s, … ”, “, Oleksandr Chalyi, Mr, Vladimir Medinsky, Oleksii Reznikov, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Slutsky, Medinsky, ”, Aleksandr Fomin, Reznikov, Ukraine’s, … “, Sergey Ponomarev, Ukraine —, Andrzej Duda, Duda, Putin “, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Murat Cetin Muhurdar, Russia’s, Zelensky, …, ‘, ’, Daniel Berehulak, Davyd Arakhamia, ” “, Roman Abramovich, ” Mr, Arakhamia, Abramovich, micromanaging, Nanna Heitmann, France —, Laetitia Vancon, Kamala Harris, Volodymyr Zelensky, “ Putin, Marc Weller, Russia “, Weller Organizations: The New York Times, Ukraine, Kremlin, NATO, “, Russian Federation, ”, European Union, West, Ministry, Times, Europe’s, Russian, Moscow, Donetsk People's, Nazi, U.S, Ukrainian, Turkish Presidential Press Service, Agence France, The Times, Russia, New York Times, stoke, Cambridge Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Kyiv, Crimean, Switzerland, Ukrainian, Crimea, “ Ukraine, Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, ”, … ” Russia, Russian, ” Russia, Istanbul, Geneva, Belarus, Western, Russia’s, Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Simferopol, Poland, Germany, France, European, Brussels, Turkish, Zelensky, “, Great Britain, China, United States, Turkey, Canada, Italy, Israel, Bucha, Washington, Swiss, Russians

☆ ‘What’s the Problem?’ Zelensky Challenges West Over Hesitations.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Andrew E. Kramer | Daniel Berehulak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

With his army struggling to fend off fierce Russian advances all across the front, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the United States and Europe to do more to defend his nation, dismissing fears of nuclear escalation and proposing that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace. Mr. Zelensky said he had also appealed to U.S. officials to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles and other weaponry at military targets inside Russia — a tactic the United States continues to oppose. The inability to do so, he insisted, gave Russia a “huge advantage” in cross-border warfare that it is exploiting with assaults in Ukraine’s northeast.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky Organizations: NATO Locations: Ukraine, United States, Europe, Russia, Ukraine’s

When a group of international journalists arrived at the southern fringe of Gaza City early Friday morning, riding in the back of an Israeli army jeep, we struggled to orientate ourselves amid the ruins, the wreckage and the darkness. House after house was missing a wall or a roof, or both. Many had simply been flattened, their concrete floors lying atop each other like a pack of playing cards. Trying to situate myself after reaching Gaza City, I asked a senior Israeli commander where we were in relation to a fishing port where I usually stayed during visits to Gaza before the war. I could not find the fish market.

Locations: Gaza City, Israel, Israeli, Gaza

☆ Israel-Hamas War Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Philip P. Pan | Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Israeli soldiers from the 7th Brigade escorted journalists to see a stone and concrete shaft, on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City on Thursday. But Col. Elad Tsury, commander of Israel’s Seventh Brigade, said Israeli forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft at the hospital, Al-Shifa. The controlled visit will not settle the question of whether Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that rules Gaza, has been using Al-Shifa Hospital to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. Image A stone and concrete shaft on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital, on Thursday. The Times journalists were allowed to see only a portion of the sprawling Al-Shifa complex.

Persons: Elad Tsury, Israel’s, Daniel Berehulak, Israel, Tsury Organizations: 7th Brigade, New York Times, Israel’s Seventh Brigade, Shifa, ., New York, Hamas, The New York Times, Times, World Health Organization Locations: Gaza City, Al, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israeli Army Takes Journalists on Controlled Visit to Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Israeli soldiers from the 7th Brigade escorted journalists to see a stone-and concrete-shaft on the grounds of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday. But Col. Elad Tsury, commander of Israel’s Seventh Brigade, said Israeli forces, fearing booby traps, had not ventured down the shaft at the hospital, Al-Shifa. The controlled visit will not settle the question of whether Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that rules Gaza, has been using Al-Shifa Hospital to hide weapons and command centers, as Israel has said. Image A stone and concrete shaft on the grounds of the Al-Shifa Hospital, on Thursday. The Times did not allow the Israeli military to screen its coverage before publication.

Persons: Elad Tsury, Israel’s, Daniel Berehulak, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, “, Tsury Organizations: 7th Brigade, Shifa, The New York Times, Israel’s Seventh Brigade, ., New York, Hamas, Al, National Public, Outpatient, The Times, Times, World Health Organization Locations: Al, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel

Yosef Chaim Bernfeld, a young businessman from New York who is trying to clean up his life, journeyed to Uman this weekend for a “spiritual fix.”Every Jewish New Year, even this one during a raging war, thousands of Hasidic pilgrims turn this city in central Ukraine into a mini Jerusalem. They roam around in big groups sucking down Coke Zero and kosher pizza, paying in shekels. They pump out Hebrew hip-hop and dance hard together in the middle of the street. They exchange blessings — “I ask God to give you a sense of belonging, to give you stability, to grow your business this year” — and drink copious amounts of red wine way past the wartime curfew.

Persons: Yosef Chaim Bernfeld, — “ Locations: New York, Uman, Ukraine, Jerusalem, shekels

☆ Russia Bombards Ukraine, Killing at Least 1: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Andrew E. Kramer | Erin Mendell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Destruction near the village of Robotyne, in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, late last month. For their part, Ukrainian military officials refrained from making any sweeping claims. Ukrainians forces enjoyed surprising successes earlier in the war by holding Kyiv, the capital, and repelling Russian forces at the end of March last year. The Ukrainian military aims to reclaim land in the south and east of the country. To reach that city, Ukrainian forces would have to fully break through the defenses around Verbove and then breach additional layers.

Persons: Oleksandr Shtupun, Daniel Berehulak, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Volodymyr Zelensky, Gen, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Zelensky Organizations: Ukrainian Army, Black Bird Group, The New York Times, Presidential Press Service, Russian Locations: Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Verbove, Russian, Moscow, Kyiv, Dmytrivka, Azov, Melitopol, Crimea, Tokmak, Bakhmut, Donetsk

☆ They Were Captured by the Russians. Then the Hardest Fight Began.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Carlotta Gall | Daniel Berehulak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Shot through the jaw and tongue by a sniper’s bullet last year in the last days of the grinding siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine, Senior Sgt. Maksym Kushnir could not eat or talk, and could barely breathe. But when he hobbled out of a bunker last May with hundreds of other wounded Ukrainian soldiers in a surrender negotiated with Russian forces, there was no medical help or any sign of the Red Cross workers they had been promised. “For the first three to four days, they did not do anything. They expected me to die on my own.”

Persons: Maksym Kushnir, Sergeant Kushnir, ” Organizations: Russian, Red Cross Locations: Ukraine, Russian

As a result, farmers in Poland, Hungary and other nations have seen their incomes plummet. measures,” his country would follow Poland in restricting Ukrainian grain imports until the end of June, according to Hungarian news reports. The announcement came after Warsaw reached a deal with Kyiv on Friday to strictly limit and, for a time, halt Ukrainian grain deliveries to Poland. Image Ukrainian grain being loaded onto a cargo ship near Odesa, Ukraine, in August. Image A Ukrainian soldier loading shells inside an American-made M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer to be fired toward Russian positions in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Friday.

☆ Fact Check-Altered image of Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskiy holding hands
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An altered image appearing to show U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holding hands has been shared online following Biden’s visit to Kyiv on Feb. 20. Examples of the image shared online can be viewed (here) and (here). The image is digitally altered, and a reverse image search reveals that the original photograph shows the pair walking side-by-side, not holding hands (here). The name of a meme Twitter handle (@MidnightMitch) can be seen to the right of the altered image (here), archived (archive.is/wip/bN0Ew). The account routinely shares altered images with the same watermark, and describes itself as a “meme making” profile (twitter.com/MidnightMitch).

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

Since the early days of the invasion, Mr. Putin has conceded, privately, that the war has not gone as planned. “I think he is sincerely willing” to compromise with Russia, Mr. Putin said of Mr. Zelensky in 2019. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. “I think this war is Putin’s grave.” Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October.

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