Oksana Necheporenko is a freelance journalist for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has opened kindergartens in the subway to help protect young pupils from Russian air strikes. Groups of children spend two hours every weekend at the makeshift facilities, where they learn the basics of math, writing, and drawing.
Residents of Kupyansk in Ukraine's Kharkiv region are being transported to safety amid signs of a buildup of Russian forces nearby. Volunteer drivers helped pensioners, mothers, and children get to a destination further from the front lines of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Two missiles fell in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, early on February 5. Five people were reported wounded. According to Ukrainian authorities, the blasts were caused by S-300 missiles fired by Russian forces.
One person was killed and three were injured in a suspected Russian missile strike on a residential building in the center of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine late on January 29. Rescuers say they found the body of an elderly woman in the rubble.
A Ukrainian man said 62 people hid in a basement used as a bomb shelter during World War II. Izyum was captured by Russian forces in March and retaken by the Ukrainian Army in early September. .
A Russian attack on Kharkiv on July 20 killed at least three people, including a 13-year-old boy. The child's grieving father held his dead son's hand and prayed for two hours until his body was taken away. (WARNING: Viewers may find the content of this video disturbing.)
Two Americans and a British man who are fighting for the Ukrainian Army spoke to RFE/RL in Kharkiv about their reasons for volunteering for battle. Some express outrage at the devastation Ukraine is enduring while others say they are serving out of loyalty to Ukrainian friends.
