Valeria Bovsha, formerly Kholodova, is a freelance video reporter for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service based in eastern Ukraine.
A 77-year-old Ukrainian man overcomes power cuts resulting from Russian air strikes with his own energy, by pedaling a bicycle hooked up to an electricity generator that lights his home and charges his phone. Oleksandr Klimenko also has his own wind turbine and solar panels.
A mother and her three children who were killed in a Russian attack on an apartment building in Kryviy Rih, Ukraine, earlier this week have been laid to rest. Maksym Kulyk paid tribute to his wife and children: 32-year-old Olena, 10-year-old Kyrylo, 2-year-old Demyd, and 2-month-old Uliana.
At least two people were killed in a Russian missile strike on a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kryviy Rih, district head Yevhen Sytnichenko said on Telegram. Early on August 27, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that dozens of drones and missiles had attacked the country's territory.
One person was killed as a missile hit a cottage area on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro early on August 26, according to authorities and local reporters. It was a day when Ukraine woke up to a barrage of Russian air attacks.
RFE/RL asked people across Ukraine what they think about their country's forces attacking Russia's Kursk region. In the interviews on August 14, people were broadly supportive -- for a variety of reasons.
Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian aerial attacks had killed at least nine people in the Dnipropetrovsk region early on April 19. In the regional center, Dnipro, a five-story residential building in the downtown area caught fire after it was hit by fragments from a downed Russian missile.
On January 7, rescuers found a dead child in the rubble of a family house that was hit by a missile in Rivne, eastern Ukraine. As RFE/RL filmed, the rescuers were searching for five more missing people, including two children. The village of Rivne lies just northeast of the city of Pokrovsk.
