Sitemap - 2023 - The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

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A Ukrainian Grinch gives his Christmas message

Your favorite Christmas carol's hidden Ukrainian history

I watched a man die in front of me

Christmas without Yaroslav.

Human costs add up as Polish truckers blockade Ukraine

What are we doing wrong?

The Ukrainian nuns occupying Putin’s favorite church in Jerusalem

The Great Ukrainian Cheese Heist

The other Russian war the world forgot

What it feels like to lose a limb in war: “When I woke up, there was no shock. I knew.”

The liberation of Kherson, and what it cost one teenager

She dealt art to Russians… then realized a dark truth about the money.

A dangerous new phase of the Ukraine war

The commander raising a Crimean battalion to take it back from the Russians

When speaking Ukrainian can get you killed

Russian drone explodes on NATO territory

Why I failed to become a Green Beret

What happens when the best among us are dead?

As Poland heads for the polls, Ukrainian refugees get a colder reception

She fled Ukraine for Israel, yet war came for her again

How Elon Musk became ‘Elon Muscovite’ in Ukraine; Ukraine's Israel rxn

What it sounds like to fire ATACMS – and how these missiles will change the war

How to talk to your Republican uncle about Ukraine

Iran shot down a flight to Kyiv, killing nearly 200. Now they’re making deadly drones.

PTSD, Booze, and Me

Jewish wartime pilgrimage to Ukraine: “We fear God’s judgment more than Russian tanks”

Good morning to readers; Taipei remains in Taiwanese hands

Inside the cockpit of a Ukrainian fighter jet – and the call for western F-16s

The Russian mines slowing Ukraine’s counteroffensive, and those fighting to neutralize them

Marking Ukrainian Independence Day: We speak to those who declared it 32 years ago

Hunger on the frontlines: how soldiers eat in the trenches; Tim released from hospital

Tim hospitalized, no issue today

Sunday Feature: Retracing Anthony Bourdain’s Ukraine Visit With 'No Reservations'

Mapaganda: Ukrainians flee to Europe, only to have their children taught Russian propaganda

VIDEO SERIES: Day in the life of a Ukrainian drone pilot in Bakhmut

Searing documentary encapsulates the experience of war

Ambush 101: Analyzing how the Ukrainian military sprang a near-perfect ambush

The Hunger Issue: The Story of a Ukrainian Sourdough Starter in Exile

Young, Ukrainian, and black – a woman working out her identity in wartime

Her brothers were executed in Bucha, but she can’t bear to go to their new memorial

How it feels to barely survive a missile attack in Kyiv; NATO’s Ukraine betrayal

The Nuke Issue: Inside Kyiv’s Radiation Monitoring Stations

NEWSFLASH: Western Ukraine’s Lviv hit with worst strike yet

Why Russian music is still popular in Ukraine; Explosives reported at nuke plant

Sunday Feature: Wartime creates surge in Ukrainian tabletop role-playing games

Bonus Animal Rescue Story: The Kind Group Saving Pups Displaced By Kherson Flooding

Amid missile strikes, being queer in Ukraine is defiance against Putin

The Cynical Calculations of a Wagner Mercenary

NEWSFLASH: Russia wracked by rebellion; Putin denounces “treason” in emergency speech

This is my mom’s brain on Russian propaganda

She secretly sneaks to the frontlines to feed cats and dogs in the ruins of her city

French fighter for Ukraine, musing about God, heads to the frontlines; update on early counteroffensive

Fury from fishermen: worst Ukrainian ecological catastrophe since Chernobyl after dam breach

‘The Ultimate Terror’ Comes For a Teacher In Kherson

NEWSFLASH: Critical dam on Dnipro River breached; thousands in danger

Nuclear engineer who escaped Russian-occupied plant lays out worst fears

NEWSFLASH: Drone explosions in Moscow overnight; Kyiv faces third attack in 24 hours

Counteroffensive nears; Ukrainian mother fights for human rights advocate son, now a POW

Ukraine’s female partisans train for action behind enemy lines; Counteroffensive turns one month!

Bakhmut hangs by thread; US soldier who fought there reflects on losses

Vyshyvanka: Ukrainian Outfit Becomes Symbol of Wartime Resistance

Explosions over the Elephant at the Kyiv Zoo

A mother's protest in Kyiv; death of a war correspondent

From his hospital bed, a drone pilot's worries about the counteroffensive

Sebastian Junger, Chris Hedges, Kim Dozier: Advice from the OGs of War Correspondence

West, By God, Virginia!

The First Substack Dedicated Exclusively to War Correspondence