Nolan Peterson

Troops take time off from the front to visit their families. But Putin's war follows them home.

Combined Russian-separatist forces have withdrawn from Shyrokyne. But Mariupol residents remain wary.

Nolan Peterson, the first American journalist to embed with frontline Ukraine forces, reports on the daily Russian bombardment.

For the beleaguered people on Ukraine's front lines, Mcdonald's is a symbol of democracy and peace.

Attack puts pressure on G7 leaders meeting this weekend to tighten the sanctions against Putin and his oligarchs.

50,000 Ukrainian troops await a summer onslaught from Putin's forces, forging a land route to Crimea.

In Ukraine, exiled dissidents form a Russian government in exile.

U.S. Army paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade have begun training the Ukrainian National Guard.

U.S. troops are applying lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to prepare Ukrainian troops for combat.

Makeshift battlefield medicine includes panty hose and transparent tape.

The battered seaside town of Shyrokyne stands between the Russian-armed rebels and Russian-occupied Crimea.

"This is my motherland and I will protect it. This will be Putin's grave."

Residents fear a pro-Russian uprising would spur Russian troops in nearby Transnistria to invade.

"This is how it was in World War II in America.Ordinary people are ready to die for their country."

Ukraine separatists threaten bloody retribution over Kiev's purge of Soviet iconography.

Eight miles from the front, Ukrainian soldiers get patched up as they await the Russian onslaught.

By law, 'the Great Patriotic War' is to be known as 'the Second World War.'

Separatist forces called back from leave to mount massive offensive this month or next.

"There are more of us. Putin is afraid of a Russian Maidan."

Separatist forces are pushing to connect Russia with Crimea by road.

Paras from the 173rd Airborne will instruct in "internal security and territorial defense" starting next month.

It's highly probable Putin will intervene in the Baltics to test NATO's resolve, a former NATO secretary-general says.