![]() Under the leadership of my predecessor, Michael Slackman his partner and now mine, Greg Winter and Jim Yardley, who made the big decisions before New York even woke up - The Times mobilized to cover this war, and answer these questions, in a way I’ve never seen any news organization cover any war before. The world is struggling to understand what’s happening, why it’s happening and what the consequences will be. ![]() This is a war unlike any we’ve seen in our lifetimes, a brutal trench war and proxy war unfolding more than 30 years after the end of the Cold War. More than 20 Times people are there today. Now, 439 days later, about 100 other Times journalists and staff have been there, too, including Jim Yardley himself, our Europe editor for much of the war. ![]() ![]() Andrew Kramer, Michael Schwirtz, Lynsey Addario, Yousur Al-Hlou,Tyler Hicks, Marichka Varenikova, Valerie Hopkins, Marc Santora, Sabrina Tavernise and many others - they were all there on Day 1, bearing witness on behalf of The Times and the world as the shelling began and the tanks rolled in. More than a dozen Times journalists were in Ukraine on the first day of the war. ![]()
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