Nataliya Volosatska is a freelance correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
A Ukrainian policewoman has been reunited with her mother after more than two years in captivity. Maryana Checheliuk, from Mariupol, was one of 75 prisoners recently released. Speaking to RFE/RL before the release, her mother said her daughter had endured torture at the hands of her Russian captors.
Polish surgeons have performed a series of operations on a Ukrainian woman who had part of her face and lower jaw blown off in a Russian attack -- winning a "medical Oscar" and enabling her to smile to the camera in an interview with RFE/RL.
Polish farmers resumed their blockade of roads along the Ukrainian border as they protested against cheaper imports from their war-torn neighbor. Ukrainian truckers held a counterdemonstration demanding the blockade be lifted so they can return to their country.
Olha and Oleh Husak lost their jobs, home, and relatives in the first days of Russia’s occupation of Mariupol. Then the bodies began piling up as Russian forces were accused of war crimes in the Ukrainian port city.
Polina Kindra spent almost three months in Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation trying to get her grandson back. Nine-year-old Mykyta Bilanchuk has health problems and was recuperating at a boarding school in Ukraine's Kherson region when Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.
