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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Evelina Riabenko |Daria Mitiuk |Finbarr O’reilly
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. A woman prays at a makeshift memorial in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, where a Russian Strike on Friday killed 19 people, including nine children. A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Constant Méheut |Daria Mitiuk |Finbarr O’reilly
It was late at night and Anton Telegin was driving toward a sprawling coal mine near Ukraine's eastern front line, using darkness to evade Russian attack drones. Mr. Telegin had come to collect wages for himself and some fellow miners, as he did at the end of every month. But this trip, on the day after Christmas, felt different: Russian troops were at one of the far gates of the mine, and he wondered whether it would be his last trip to the place where he had worked for 18 years.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Marc Santora |Liubov Sholudko |Finbarr O’reilly
Cinco meses después de que las fuerzas ucranianas cruzaran la frontera en la primera invasión terrestre de Rusia desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los dos ejércitos están librando allí algunos de los enfrentamientos más furiosos de la guerra, luchando por el terreno y por la influencia en el conflicto.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Marc Santora |Liubov Sholudko |Finbarr O’reilly
Five months after Ukrainian forces swept across the border in the first ground invasion of Russia since World War II, the two armies are engaged in some of the most furious clashes of the war there, fighting over land and leverage in the conflict. The intensity of the battles recalls some of the worst sieges of eastern Ukraine over the past three years, including in towns like Bakhmut and Avdiivka, names that now evoke memories of mass slaughter for soldiers on both sides.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Finbarr O’reilly
During the last year of her life, 10-year-old Naimat Ahmed survived the horrors of war in Sudan — among them, waves of ethnic attacks on her Masalit community in the country’s Darfur region.
In one of those attacks, Naimat’s grandmother was fatally shot and her older sister was wounded.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Finbarr O’reilly
Khadija Ishag Abdullah holds her dying daughter, Naimat Ahmed, 10, at a clinic run by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, in Adré, Chad. Editor’s note: This story contains disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. Adré, Chad — During the last year of her life, 10-year-old Naimat Ahmed survived the horrors of war in Sudan — among them, waves of ethnic attacks on her Masalit community in the country’s Darfur region.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Finbarr O’reilly
“War photographers are historians, artists, trespassers, and emotional bandits with complicated and contradictory motives, some virtuous, some not”, human rights investigator Corinne Dufka writes in her 2023 book, “This Is War: Photographs from a Decade in Conflict”, which chronicles her her former career as a news photographer documenting conflicts of the 1990s, including Bosnia, El Salvador, Rwanda, Liberia, Sudan and Congo.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Andrew Kramer |Maria Varenikova |Finbarr O’reilly
After Russian forces took control of his village in 2022, Volodymyr Vakulenko, a well-known Ukrainian author, sensed he might soon be arrested. So he buried his new handwritten manuscript in his backyard, under a cherry tree. Best known in Ukraine for his cheerful and lyrical children's books, Mr. Vakulenko was seething with anger at Moscow's occupying forces.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Finbarr O’reilly
A US-based cybersecurity expert gets hacked by North Korea. He then hacks back. Takes out the entire country’s limited internet for nine years. As you do. We get the story from Dina Temple-Raston, of the podcast Click Here.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Finbarr O’reilly |Maria Varenikova
A month into Russia's push across the border in northern Ukraine, Western weapons and Ukrainian reinforcements have largely stalled the attack. But they came too late to save one town, Vovchansk, where the city hall, a cultural center, countless apartment blocks and several riverside hotels are all now in ruins. A small town divided by the Vovcha River, Vovchansk was once a regional tourist attraction - a pleasant base from which to explore the chalk hills nearby.
