At the moment, Ukraine's counteroffensive is stalled not by ferocious Russian attacks, but by an enemy no less tenacious: the viscous central Ukrainian mud.
War has forced Ukraine to become skilled at treating amputees, but there are too many for its overtaxed medical workers. Some are finding their way to a prosthetics clinic in Minnesota.
In a year of war, New York Times photographers have reported from the front line, from cities and villages and in the footsteps of refugees. These pictures stayed with them.