Michael Schwirtz is an investigative reporter with the International desk at The New York Times. He has covered the countries of the former Soviet Union from Moscow and was a lead reporter on a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about Russian intelligence operations.
He began working for The Times in 2006 in the Moscow bureau. He has covered the New York City Police Department for the Metro desk and was part of an award-winning team that reported about brutality and corruption in the New York State prison system and at Rikers Island.
Coffee shops and kiosks are everywhere in Ukraine’s capital, their popularity both an act of wartime defiance and a symbol of closer ties to the rest of Europe.
By Constant Méheut, Daria Mitiuk and Brendan Hoffman
The death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov, a pilot who delivered a helicopter and secret documents to Ukraine, has raised fears that the Kremlin is again targeting its enemies.
By Michael Schwirtz and José Bautista
The factors behind the failure to prevent a terrorist attack include a distrust of foreign intelligence, a focus on Ukraine and a distracting political crackdown at home.
By Paul Sonne, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz
For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.
By Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz
The apparent death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov is likely to fuel speculation that it was the work of Russia’s intelligence services.
By Michael Schwirtz and Constant Méheut
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By Michael Schwirtz, Melissa Eddy and Anton Troianovski
A Russian plane shot down with a Patriot missile was probably carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, U.S. officials say.
By Julian E. Barnes and Marc Santora
In its hunt for weapons, Ukraine has rolled back anticorruption rules and turned to people once seen as relics of an anything-goes era.
By Justin Scheck and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Some of the weapons sent to Ukraine by other countries have been unusable, and hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts paid up front have yet to be fulfilled.
By Justin Scheck and Lara Jakes
Dutch intelligence officials shared information with the C.I.A. in June 2022 that they had learned the Ukrainian military had been planning an operation using divers to blow up one of the pipelines.
By Julian E. Barnes and Michael Schwirtz