From an Inside the Times column by Emmett Linder headlined “A Former Marine, Reporting on the Front Lines of a Different War”:

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago, journalists at The New York Times have covered the tragedies, devastation and death tolls, as well as Ukraine’s resistance and resilience. As the war grinds on with no end in sight, The Times has created a new role for Thomas Gibbons-Neff, the former Kabul bureau chief: Ukraine correspondent.