Sitemap - 2025 - The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
Will Ukraine face the hardest vote in decades?
Blackout roulette in Ukraine’s elevators
NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy readies for elections in 60-90 days
How we gave Ukrainian orphans a visit from Santa.
Trump's strategy for a diminished America
How China would cut Taiwan off
The 24 hours after a Shahed attack
Cards that may get you in trouble
A phony peace process to appease Trump
NEWSFLASH: Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff will leave his position
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
Trump’s 'Peace' Plan Means More War
At Colombia-Venezuela border, vulnerable brace for Trump war
Why the war won’t end anytime soon
NEWSFLASH: Close misses in Kyiv last night
Russia’s disturbing human ‘safaris’
Overnight in the subway, thanks to Russian bombings
How Hungary Became Putin’s EU Favorite
Why Ukraine’s heating is so vulnerable to Russian strikes
What Trump Doesn’t Get About Tomahawks
Inside Ukraine’s rescue dog academy
Investigation: Inside Russia's real estate theft scheme
Good for Beavers, Bad for Russia
The Anarchists (yes, anarchists) in Ukraine’s military
Should NATO shoot down Russian jets?
Russia tries to recreate N.Korea in Ukraine
Searching for Kyiv’s lost 11th century library
How a Chinese pirate’s son muddled Taiwanese identity
'Kukly': Putin's version of Jimmy Kimmel
Why Putin and Belarus Banned This Theater
BONUS: Inside Our Editorial Meeting! (and Tim speaks Ukrainian)
Gen Z rage turns to uprooting governments
Hypocrisy behind a Ukrainian refugee’s murder
NEWSFLASH: Poland shoots down Russian drones
One month since Trump’s meaningless deadline
How war made me hooked on adrenaline
Not even the flamingos can have peace
How authoritarians can cut the global internet
Why we’re going dark for September
LISTEN: The sounds of war we hear at night
Ukrainian wartime poetry through the ages
Where Ukraine’s eff-you attitude comes from
Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines
NEWSFLASH: Trump-Putin summit ends with…. sweet nothings?
Putin is asking Trump for Ukraine’s Fortress Belt
How bones tell stories of missing Ukrainian soldiers
NEWSFLASH: Putin, Trump to meet face to face next week
Behind the ads Ukrainian units make to compete with one another
AI will slash, burn the journalism field
Plastic surgery to cover up war wounds
Protests erupt in Ukraine as Zelenskyy signs corruption law rollback
Surge of childhood diabetes due to wartime stress
Russian youth brainwashing programs in the West
NEWSFLASH: Trump will sell arms to Ukraine via NATO
The Ukrainian links of America’s legendary SR-71 spy plane
Could veterans change Ukraine’s politics forever?
NEWFLASH: Kyiv ablaze on U.S. Independence Day
NEWSFLASH: Myroslava gives birth
The most heart-wrenching job in Ukraine
The most important fashion news you’ll read today.
NEWSFLASH: What Trump’s Iran strikes mean for Ukraine; democracy in Iran
The death of our dear Dog of War
Investigation: How Russia steals Ukraine's trillion-dollar mineral wealth
The ‘Red Beaches’ of a Taiwan invasion
How Holodomor famine still scars Ukraine food habits
When your hallway becomes a bomb shelter
Art through the eyes of wartime children
NEWSFLASH: SBU explosion damages Kerch bridge
NEWSFLASH: Russian airfields burning after massive, covert Ukrainian assault
How Ukrainian linguists prepare the country’s spies
Stolen youth: how Ukrainian students pass exams in bomb shelters
Inside Ukraine’s secret, hidden apartment concerts
NEWSFLASH: Ukraine and Russia hold largest exchange of prisoners since 2014
The Ukrainian roots of Mixed Martial Arts’ most feared Russian fighters
NEWSFLASH: Trump makes no headway in Ukraine war peace after call with Putin
How Ukraine can move beyond its Soviet architectural legacy
NEWSFLASH: Peace talks begin in Turkey
NEWSFLASH: Putin a no-show for negotiations in Turkey
Crimea celebrated, as Trump gives it away
What today’s India-Pakistan attacks (and ceasefire) means for Ukraine War
NEWSFLASH: Ukrainian gov approves minerals deal
Why the Papal elections matters for Ukraine during the war
Taiwan imagines: What happens the day China invades?
A guide to places that matter to us
Inside Ukraine’s Antarctic Expedition (penguins inside)
Why I’m giving birth in a warzone
Fearless Journalism Focused On Your Rights and Powers to Act
S. Korea’s surprising sympathy for N. Korean POWs held by Ukraine
Scoop: Trump envoy’s conflict of interest: a Russia-linked business partner
Easter in Ukraine: a celebration Russia can’t break
Tariffs destroyed Ukraine’s automotive industry. Is the U.S. next?
The 280,000 Ukrainians at risk of U.S. deportation
Can Ukrainian soldiers survive without Musk’s Starlink?
NEWSFLASH: Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia captured by Ukraine
From prisons to patriotism: Ukrainian tattoos
How Trump’s tariffs hurt Ukraine’s battered steel industry
Russia kidnaps not only children, but rare animals too
Scars of war: can Ukraine rebuild on poisoned land?
NEWSFLASH: U.S. intel suggests no end to war in sight
How DOGE scrapped the hunt for Ukraine’s missing children
Ukraine’s HIV patients face crisis: Trump aid halt
Surging Ukraine’s disabilities help to aid the war wounded
NEWSFLASH: Russia agrees to 30-day limited ceasefire proposal
Ukraine’s surprising obsession with sushi
What Trump’s intel pause cost Ukraine
Watching helplessly as Russia broke ceasefires to kill Ukrainians
NEWSFLASH: U.S. resumes aid, intel sharing with Ukraine
Ukraine fought alongside US in Iraq; never demanded minerals
Why Zelenskyy wore that shirt to the Oval Office
Do Ukrainians hate America now?
NEWSFLASH: Trump halts aid to Ukraine
Who Ukraine’s critical minerals really belong to
Why Zelenskyy Stood Up to Trump-Vance
Why does Zelenskyy have three nicknames in Ukrainian?
Photos we took that illustrate three years of war
Could tomorrow's vote see the 'Orbanization' of Germany?
The day we’ll see planes in Ukrainian skies
From Munich: Trump’s Concessions Foreshadow Ukraine Backstab
Will Ukraine be forced to become neutral?
Ukraine's deep history of peacekeeping in other wars
Inside the first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine
Why do Ukrainians smile less than Americans?
NEWSFLASH: Trump foreign aid freeze blow to Ukraine civil society
Shadowing Russian hybrid warfare ships in the Baltic Sea
Move over Elon; Ukrainian fungus can help us get to Mars.
Biden’s bitter legacy on Ukraine
He was killed in combat, while she was pregnant
Ukraine’s war-tested firefighters share advice with L.A.’s
Green energy as a force against Russian shelling
The hypocrisy of China’s Russian border disputes