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Isabel Coles

ARTICLES BY ISABEL COLES

The Clock House, built in the 1950s, was one of the most coveted addresses in what had been a thriving city. (AP)

Home by home, Russia is selling occupied Ukraine to Russians

6 min read . 04 Aug 2025

Ahmed Yaseen disappeared with his mother and five sisters in Syria. (Photo: Rena Effendi for WSJ)

A family’s decade-long search for children stolen by Assad’s regime

8 min read . 07 Jun 2025

Ukraine's defence industry rapidly expands amid war, producing key arms but still reliant on Western aid for scale. (Image: Reuters)

Ukraine is making more weapons than ever—but still can’t fight Russia alone

6 min read . 18 May 2025

Ukrainian soldiers training in the country’s east recently. Photo: Serhii Korovayny for WSJ

Russia and Ukraine adopt similar tactic with Trump: Make nice and take it slow

5 min read . 02 Apr 2025

What Did Russia and Ukraine Actually Agree to in Black Sea Truce?

What did Russia and Ukraine actually agree to in Black Sea truce?

5 min read . 27 Mar 2025

The US Congress has voted through five bills appropriating a total of $175 billion for Ukraine in the three years since Russia’s invasion. (File Photo by Handout / 24th Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces / AFP)

How much has the US spent on Ukraine in the war?

4 min read . 26 Feb 2025

Antigovernment fighters celebrate in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Nov. 30. abdulaziz ketaz/AFP/Getty Images

What Syria’s secret police saw as the regime crumbled

8 min read . 30 Jan 2025

People remove a government banner near Umayyad Square in Damascus. Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on 8 December, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (AFP)

Assad’s rule collapses in Syria, raising concerns of a vacuum

6 min read . 08 Dec 2024

The Kurakhove power plant was severely damaged by Russian attacks. (Photo: Serhii Korovayny for WSJ)

Inside Ukraine’s quest to keep the lights on as winter descends

6 min read . 11 Nov 2024

Ukraine resorts to shaking down nightlife spots for recruits as troop numbers fall. (WSJ)

Ukraine shakes down nightlife spots for recruits as troop numbers fall

6 min read . 28 Oct 2024

Ukrainian soldiers with a drone modified to carry a grenade launcher.

Four ways Ukraine’s drone innovations are changing warfare

4 min read . 13 Oct 2024

A damaged statue of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, in the Ukrainian-controlled Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region. (AFP)

Behind Ukraine’s Russia invasion: Secrecy, speed and electronic jamming

10 min read . 17 Aug 2024

A rescue diver in the River Tysa, on the border between Ukraine and Romania.

Ukrainian men desperate to escape war are drowning as they flee

9 min read . 14 Jul 2024

The checkout area at a home-improvement store in Kharkiv after a Russian attack that killed 19 people.

Russia aims to make life unlivable in Ukraine’s second city

7 min read . 02 Jun 2024

Ruslana Goryanska earns twice as much working in a coal mine in Ukraine as she did at a beauty salon, for half the number of hours. (Photographs by Svet Jacqueline for The Wall Street Journal)

A shortage of men is forcing women into Ukraine’s mines

6 min read . 22 May 2024

Ukrainian servicemen of the 22nd Brigade launch a Leleka reconnaissance UAV drone near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on April 27, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: AFP)

Ukraine bets on long-range drones as it seeks a battlefield edge

5 min read . 29 Apr 2024

A damaged Ukrainian power station after a Russian attack. (Wall Street Journal)

Russia switches tactics with attacks on Ukrainian power plants

5 min read . 11 Apr 2024

Ukraine’s troops are struggling to hold the line. SERHII KOROVAYNY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Eggs, ammo and underwear: Inside Ukraine’s new push against military graft

6 min read . 09 Apr 2024

Ukrainian soldiers, from left, Mykola Savosik, Andriy Dubnytskiy holding his child, Heorhiy Pavlov with his mother and Ivan Zhytnik, who were left behind in Avdiivka. (ILLUSTRATION: EMIL LENDOF/WSJ, FAMILY PHOTOS)

Ukraine’s impossible choice: conceding territory or lives

10 min read . 19 Mar 2024

Ukraine is short on personnel and military equipment, hindering its ability to defend areas such as Avdiivka. LIBKOS/GETTY IMAGES

Ukraine Withdraws From Besieged City as Russia Advances

4 min read . 17 Feb 2024