Anthony Loyd

The last time I saw Mariana Zhaglo, war was still a rumour. It was January 24, a full month before the Russian invasion, and she stood in her kitchen in Kyiv with the Zbroyer Z-15 hunting carbine she had bought to defend her city against possible Russian attack. Few of her neighbours believed the Ru

In the final seconds as their weaving missile neared its on-screen target, the soldiers huddling in the armoured hull bawled out encouragement to the warhead, a

Watch the Times film Another Man’s War as Anthony Loyd joins volunteer Dave Young on the front line in Bakhmut

The corpse of a woman lay abandoned on her bedroom floor. Her name was unknown. A Ukrainian man, a feral-looking survivor with an attack dog, had guided Dave Yo

Under the soft light of early morning, serenaded by birdsong and the rumble of distant artillery, the drone pilot began the day’s work of killing and destroying.Seated beneath a canopy of trees and

Careless of life, drained of fear, intimate with killing and death: the blank-eyed soldiers of the elite “storm” units in the vanguard of Ukraine’s counteroffen

The charity Come Back Alive is using donations to supply drones that can wreck million-pound tanks. Their shopping list is getting longer

The journey to school in Kroo Bay, Freetown’s most infamous slum quarter, resembles a pinball run of alternating threats. Some of the dangers — such as those posed by the street gangs and the groups

The young woman sitting curled up in the chair was an accomplished destroyer. Pelaheya was already obliterating men and machines a year ago when I first saw her at work, but she killed in a different

Roman Trokhymets is one of the lucky few receiving treatment for his mental health, but as the war drags on Ukraine is ill-equipped to deal with the scale of the problem