Ukraine Finally Got Battlefield Momentum. Now Comes a Russian Offensive.
Moscow’s forces are intensifying their attacks in southern Ukraine after Kyiv made rare gains along the front. Mykola Tys/Associated Press [:] A Russian drone hit the 17th-century St. Andrew’s Church in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday. The building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mykola Tys/Associated Press Credit Credit... Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, about 60 miles east of Zaporizhzhia, in January. Credit... Tyler Hicks/The New York Times By Cassandra Vinograd Reporting from Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv in Ukraine The New York Times , March 25, 2026, 5:41 a.m. ET After years of slowly losing ground, Ukrainian forces started the month of March with some rare momentum. Mounting a counterattack on the open steppe of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, one of the most fluid parts of a largely frozen front line, Ukraine in February gained more ground than it lost, for the first month since 2023, accordi...