What We’re Reading About One Year of War in Ukraine

The misery of 365 days of bloodshed and the full scale of the global repercussions are difficult to sum up with mere words.

Nearly a year since Russian forces rolled into Ukraine, there are no real signs of a way out of the conflict. Neither side appears primed for an outright military victory, and progress at the negotiating table seems just as unlikely.

After a series of humiliating retreats, Putin’s initial invasion plan has clearly failed, but Russia’s war is far from over.

A shared sense of national history is proving to be a crucial weapon, spurring on Ukraine resistance and Russian soldiers.

Images from one year of fighting in Ukraine after Russia launched an all-out invasion by land, air and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two.

Last winter, my friends in Moscow doubted that Putin would start a war. But now, as one told me, “the country has undergone a moral catastrophe.”

If we deprive ourselves of history, everything is a surprise.

Among the millions of Ukrainians volunteering to help are a group of women running a “data battalion.”

A journey through the strange, semiprofessional world of volunteers and foreign fighters who, one year into Russia’s invasion, are risking everything to defeat the invaders.

A first-ever oral history of how Washington insiders saw the warning signs of a European land war, their frantic attempts to stop it — and the moment Putin actually crossed the border.

Ukrainian ingenuity has impressed US officials, who have praised Kyiv’s ability to “MacGyver” solutions to its battlefield needs that fill in important tactical gaps left by the larger, more sophisticated Western weaponry.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian climbers mobilized against the invaders in many ways. CLIMBING sent longtime contributor Ed Douglas to Ukraine to hear some of their stories.

The government is using Clearview AI to identify fallen Russian soldiers, but this deployment distracts from face recognition’s dangers.

Forecasting a conclusion to an unpredictable conflict.

Like wartime posters, the stamps provide a fascinating and symbolic visual record of Ukrainian history.

Serhii Plokhy, Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, recommends books to better understand the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, from an introductory work by an eminent historian to the latest work of some of Ukraine’s leading novelists.