Roman Pahulych covers defense and security for Donbas.Realities of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. He has worked for RFE/RL since 2018 after stints as a reporter for Ukrainian news Channel 24 -- both in Ukraine and abroad.
Ukraine's 2S7 Pion self-propelled artillery pieces are engaging with Russian forces in the Donetsk region. Because of their long range -- 37.5 kilometers -- they are used to attack key enemy targets. The 2S7 Pion packs the biggest punch in the Ukrainian artillery arsenal with 203-millimeter shells.
Ukraine has reported dozens of missile strikes across its territory, including the capital, Kyiv, in a significant escalation of Russian attacks. This follows a massive explosion over the weekend that knocked down part of the bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
A Ukrainian mortar battery provides cover for their infantry on the front line in eastern Ukraine. They fire dozens of shells per day, including some captured from Russian forces. They aim at targets up to 7 kilometers away, the maximum range, as longer-range Russian artillery hits back at them.
The Ukrainian Army's 93rd Mechanized Brigade is using a captured self-propelled howitzer, a 2S5 Giatsint-S, to hit back against Moscow's forces with their own shells. Several were captured after the retreat by Russian troops from the Kharkiv region during a sweeping Ukrainian counteroffensive.
RFE/RL correspondent Roman Pahulych met with artillerymen from Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade in the country's eastern Kharkiv region as they continued to try and push back Russian forces.
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its sixth month, Ukrainian troops fighting in the Donetsk region say they are not experiencing the constant shelling they have seen up to now.
When Russian troops abandoned a BTR-82A armored personnel carrier, they dropped a grenade inside to render it unusable. Or so they thought. A Ukrainian soldier explains how they repaired the damage to put the APC back into the fight on their side.
Aerial drones are playing a critical role for both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries in the skies above the eastern Donbas region.
RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Roman Pahulych reports from the city of Lysychansk in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region as fighting rages between Ukrainian and Russian forces. Conditions in the region are harsh with no water, electric lighting, or mobile phone networks.
A Ukrainian woman has given RFE/RL a detailed account of how she was raped by a Russian Army soldier. To protect her privacy, we have pixelated her face and we are not disclosing her name. Ukrainian police have been informed of the case.
A great deal has been written about high-tech, high-precision weapons in Ukraine's battle against Russia's invasion. But Grad rocket systems, a technology many decades old, are also playing a role in the fight. Both the Russian and the Ukrainian militaries have this system in their arsenals.
Ukrainian troops have pushed back Russian invaders in several directions near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city. RFE/RL correspondent Roman Pahulych visited Saltivka, one of the city's most badly damaged districts.
RFE/RL reporter Roman Pahulych surveyed the destruction along the highway near the village of Mala Rohan just east of Kharkiv on March 31.
Devastating Russian military attacks on civilian residential areas northwest of the Ukrainian capital are driving more people to make the difficult journey to Kyiv. On March 9, evacuees spoke of living in their basements until they decided to flee.
Amid persistent shelling, thick black smoke was seen rising from a local power station, which caught fire on February 22, leaving over 40,000 residents of the town of Shchastya without electricity for the second time in recent days amid intensive shelling.
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region have weaponized consumer drones to drop grenades on Ukrainian government trenches.
