Ukraine's border in photos – The New York Times
Photographs by David GuttenfelderWritten by Peter RobinsDavid Guttenfelder traveled along Ukraine's northeastern border twice in the months before Russian troops arrived.June 7, 2024The invaders had not returned. Not yet. But along about 600 miles of Ukraine's northeastern border territory that The New York Times visited late last year and again in early spring, the war has never ended.Much of this area, in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, was once agricultural land. Now a farm housed an anti-saboteur unit – made up of anti-Putin Russians, to prevent sending Ukrainian troops into Russia – preparing before dawn for a cross-border raid.The fields are too exposed to Russian fire for anyone to attempt to harvest. Instead, they are littered with "dragon's teeth," concrete anti-tank...