Sam Skove is a Kyiv-based journalist from the United States. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Mother Jones, and Military Times, among other places.
Over the more than eight-month occupation of Kherson, Leonid Remiha, chief doctor at a city hospital, suffered electric shocks at the hands of his captors, treated others who were tortured, and hid out on boats and river islands. One thing he did not do was leave.
Before the Russian invasion, one was a bodybuilder, another a civil engineer, and the third worked in real estate. Their journey from green recruits to seasoned drone operators shows how much Ukraine has achieved – and just how far Ukraine has to go in matters ranging from weapons to intelligence.
In Lyman, a strategic railway hub recaptured by Ukrainian forces in a major counteroffensive in the east, soldiers describe the encirclement and retreat of Russian troops -- and talk about what may come next as Moscow mobilizes new recruits amid battlefield setbacks.
Determined to escape as shelling threatened their village in eastern Ukraine, two dozen desperate people thought they were taking a safe route out -- but it all went bad quickly. At a Kharkiv hospital, survivors recall an ambush that authorities say killed 13 children and 11 adults.
With drones playing an increasingly important role in Ukraine’s efforts to push back Russia’s unprovoked invasion, Kyiv is pulling out all the stops to train operators to use them with maximum effectiveness.
RFE/RL spoke with locals of several towns in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region that were recently liberated in a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive that drove back occupying Russian forces. During the months of occupation, all of them experienced shortages – and some of them told of much worse.
For millions of people in Ukraine, access to potable water has been badly compromised by Russia's invasion, creating health risks that exacerbate the dangers of war -- and leaving civilians and officials scrambling for solutions.
