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Dispatches

From the first signs Russians were massing troops on the border, to the invasion and onslaught on besieged cities, Times & Sunday Times foreign correspondents have reported from the front line to tell the story of a nation in the grip of war. Here are their vivid dispatches, which chart Ukraine's fears for the future, its determination to prevail against the odds, and the devastating cost of President Putin's war.

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Ukraine’s kamikaze drone pilots pick off hundreds of targets apiece

Russian hackers spent months inside Ukrainian telecoms giant

Russia revives Smersh, Stalin’s anti-spy unit made famous by Bond

Wallace: UK must put its money where its mouth is to help Ukraine

‘Saboteurs’ drill through German gas pipeline

Russia and Ukraine agree largest prisoner swap of war

Le Pen and Russia? It’s a Macron smear, says party

‘Women are the best snipers’: the elite soldier hunting naive Russians

Eastern Ukraine hit by retaliatory Russian strikes

Dogs use British-made gadgets to find radiation on battlefields

Europe aims to help Ukraine win against Putin without US aid

Hosed down outdoors at minus 42C: reality in Navalny’s brutal Arctic jail

Cities across Ukraine hit in one of Russia’s biggest attacks

Britain sends missiles to Kyiv after biggest Russian barrage

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Raging Putin ‘sends top brass to front’ after warship humiliation

Is Ukraine trying to take Crimea back from Russia?

Russia admits to using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine

Zelensky brings Orthodox Christmas forward to match West

Year of the drone — how the hi-tech weapon has transformed warfare

Shapps: No price is too high to stop Putin’s autocratic era

Ukrainian refugees in Europe will be drafted to fight

Putin hasn’t won if Ukraine’s traditions live on

Ukraine gunship squadron flies into battle in Cold War relics

Surrounded and low on ammo, the elite troops out to spoil Putin’s New Year

Kyiv bracing for brutal winter war

‘They operated on me without anaesthetic’: Azov soldiers return to the front

‘I worried our children would be consumed by hate’: inside Ukraine’s grief camps

Kyiv’s Drone Mother unleashes her deadly children into battle

‘Crowdfunded drones can wreck Putin’s tanks — but we need more’

Jet ski raiders strike at the heart of Crimea

Go back to the Ukraine front? I would rather shoot myself in the leg

A firefight erupts and soldiers watch on a drone feed as their comrades fall

‘I’m so excited to still be alive’ — the mine-clearers who keep coming back

‘I’m ready to die . . . 90% of the guys here will die too’

A mother’s 312-day search for the loved ones stolen by Russia

Ukrainian lives being saved by British armoured vehicles

Putin’s missiles hit the spiritual heart of Odesa

The honeytrappers persuading Russian soldiers to reveal all

Wagner’s retreat leaves ruin in its wake for Russia

Outnumbered with outdated kit: a day with Ukraine’s heroic helicopter pilots

Humiliated Russia has learnt from mistakes and copied Wagner

Evacuation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant feeds fears of sabotage

It hasn’t changed anything for us, say Ukraine’s soldiers

Kyiv’s eyes in the sky learn to live without pity for Russians

Meet ‘Predator’ and ‘Grandad’, the exiled Belarusians plotting an uprising against Putin’s friend

Schoolboy ‘heroes’ killed in gunfight with Kremlin forces

My son said ‘I know what hell is’ — before the Russians took him again

‘Shells, drones — they’re throwing everything at us’

Her son went to fight Putin to protect her. He died on the front line at 18

Flood helpers throw themselves to the ground as Putin’s shells land by the rescue point

The female drone army carrying the fight to Putin

Diamond-rich African country is a zombie host for Kremlin’s mercenaries

‘Compared to some places it’s paradise’: bombed-out Ukrainians sow seeds of recovery

Ukrainians divided over legacy of ancient burial mounds

We live near Chernobyl. Why did Russians dig trenches in our radioactive woods?

Meet the defectors fighting Russia: ‘The Putin regime must be destroyed’

Ukraine surrogates fear ban on births for foreigners

‘I stand by my grandson’s grave and I weep’

Ukraine’s navy chief has eye on liberating Crimea

‘Eerie silence ... then war was upon us’: a correspondent’s Ukraine diary

On the front line of Ukraine’s cultural de-Russification

I’ve never seen anything like this: the British surgeon treating Ukraine’s wounded

Revisiting Bucha, ground zero for Russian atrocity

‘Putin has more men, but our mentality beats any weapon’

‘A day without dead Russians isn’t complete’

Life in the trenches: ‘Waves of Russians go over the top — they’re just cannon fodder’

Chechens avenge family lost in wars against Moscow

From 21st-century trenches, Ukraine’s war poets write acclaimed verse for their times

‘We are taking you home, buddy’ — Ukraine recovers battlefield dead

Partisans halted Russian advance on Kyiv, but they paid with their lives

Cancer and strokes won’t stop them defending Ukraine

‘Russian torturers argued about socks, then reached for the meat knife’

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