Iryna Romaliyska is a correspondent for Current Time, the Russian-language channel run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
An investigation by Current Time reveals that a Russian soldier who allegedly murdered two civilians and attempted to rape another in occupied southern Ukraine in 2022 is one of the many thousands of Russian convicts the Kremlin has enlisted to fight in the full-scale invasion.
Yelena Kostyuchenko believes she was poisoned last year in Germany, where she fled following her critical reporting in Ukraine while covering Russia's full-scale invasion. Kostyuchenko told Current Time that she experienced disorientation, stomach pains, swelling, and other symptoms.
Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said Russia's latest missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital failed to "sow panic" among the population but instead created more "anger" and "hatred" against Moscow. Klitschko made the comments to Current Time on May 29 as Russian forces carried out daytime strikes.
Videos have been posted online showing Ukrainian recruitment officers wrestling with civilians on the streets, and even dragging them into vehicles. The authorities say these are isolated incidents.
Amid the mounting casualties on both sides and Russia’s latest retreat, the coming winter months will have an outsized impact on the future of the war.
With no central heating, it's hardly luxurious accommodation, but for Anna Serdyuk, her mother, two children, and a niece, it's given them a chance to get settled after fleeing Ukraine.
With the Russian military bogged down in its invasion of neighboring Ukraine and suffering unexpected losses, the authorities are coming up with increasingly creative ways of roping soldiers into joining the fray.
Rubles, not hryvnyas. Russian passports, not Ukrainian. Door-to-door house searches. Russian authorities are clamping down in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson, ahead of an expected referendum on annexation.
Russia is gathering data on Ukrainian society in occupied southern regions through “filtration centers” in apparent preparation to hold threatened “referendums” on annexing the territories.
An “absolute majority” of Ukrainian police officers who were working in the parts of eastern and southern Ukraine that are now under occupation by Russian forces have moved to Kyiv-controlled territory, the country’s interior minister said.
Why did Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau destroy secret documents pertaining to major criminal cases, including against leading political figures, hours before and after Russia’s invasion in February?
Russian invading forces are now focused on seizing control of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine after being repelled in Kyiv. But Russian leader Vladimir Putin could target the Ukrainian capital again, a Ukrainian special forces commander says.
In an interview with Current Time, Ukrainian president adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak has warned that Moscow aims to destroy Ukraine's agricultural infrastructure and exploit a global food crisis set off by the war.
In an interview with Current Time, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that he doesn't believe Russian President Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons and that he has mended his rift with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Talk of Russian recognition of the separatist-claimed parts of eastern Ukraine is a "political tactic," analysts say. Moscow remains focused on forcing Kyiv to implement the Kremlin's version of the Minsk agreements.
Latvia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine and is providing its army with anti-aircraft missiles, combat gear, and field rations, according to Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks. He spoke to Iryna Romaliyskaya of Current Time TV on January 24 in Prague.
A strike committee leader at a major Belarusian chemical factory says workers are wary of publicly voicing their support and joining the opposition's national strike demanding that Alyaksandr Lukashenka step down amid threats of firings and other harassment by the state.
Belarus's Lukashenka says a group of Russian mercenaries in Minsk was plotting to "destabilize the country." What's the real story?
Russian journalist David Frenkel was trying to cover voting at a St. Petersburg polling station on June 30 when a police officer roughly attempted to remove him, breaking his collarbone in the process. The frightening incident was caught on video, and authorities say they are investigating. From the hospital where he is recovering after surgery, Frenkel described the incident in interviews with RFE/RL and Current Time.
A Chechen blogger says he fears for his life after a close ally of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov declared a blood feud against him.
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