A 15-year-old girl was forced into marriage with a 28-year-old man in the Surkhandarya region of Uzbekistan, her father says. Social services officials tried to prevent the wedding but it proceeded in August, garnering viral social media coverage.
Neighbors of an Uzbek grain farmer recorded a night-time visit by police, who they say threatened the man, accusing him of falling short of state production quotas. Although Uzbek law guarantees farmers independence, many report they are still harassed and threatened over productivity.
Overnight Russian air strikes burned out apartments and hit civilian buildings in three Ukrainian regions on September 24. Ukrainian officials, in turn, said they hit Russian oil processing facilities in Salavat and Novorossiisk, in a growing campaign to attack distant petrochemical infrastructure.
Russian forces are trying to advance on Kostyantynivka from several directions and the Kremlin wants to cut off Ukrainian forces' access to supply routes, which make this city a prime target. Locals face constant shelling and disruptions to the water and electricity supply, some clearly rattled.
Survivors of a Russian air strike that killed 25 retirees who had gathered to collect their pension checks described shock and grief to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. As volunteers helped them evacuate, one woman said she was spared only because two dead men fell on top of her.
Deadly Russian drone strikes hit a key Ukrainian government building for the first time since Moscow's full-scale invasion began, Kyiv said. The September 7 attack on Kyiv's Cabinet of Ministers building was part of Russia's biggest aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital since February 2022.
Former Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Velychko manages up to 60 dogs a day at an animal shelter in Lviv, making use of his right arm alone. The amputee was wounded in battle in Kharkiv in 2022 but has found new peace and purpose caring for four-legged friends.
Hundreds of police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters around the University of Novi Sad campus on September 5. The protest was part of a 10-month movement to demand reforms in the wake of a fatal railway station roof collapse in 2024.
With villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region in constant danger of Russian air assaults, locals are increasingly deciding to leave their homes behind for safer places further west. As volunteers arrived to transport some of them, another Russian drone struck, underscoring the risk of remaining.
Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy was gunned down on a Lviv street on August 30, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed. The shooting took place around noon and Parubiy died on the scene from his injuries, according to police. The shooter remains at large.
Russia launched air strikes on Ukraine in the early hours of August 28, hitting Kyiv with drones and missiles, causing multiple deaths. Survivors of the attacks on the Ukrainian capital dug through debris and looked for missing loved ones as rescuers continued their searches for survivors.
Ukrainian rescue crews looked for survivors in the rubble of a residential building after Kyiv was hit by massive Russian air strikes on August 28. Ukrainian officials reported that the drone and missile attacks caused multiple deaths.
Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade says its tank and drone units continue to fight Russian forces who broke through near the town of Dobropillya in the eastern Donetsk region. Captured Russian troops told RFE/RL they experienced confusion and heavy casualties.
Armenians spoke to RFE/RL about their thoughts on an expected corridor deal between their country and Azerbaijan. The plan calls for a US-administered road through southern Armenia.
Residents of Kherson city's Korabelniy district have been scrambling to evacuate as fears grow of being cut off by Russian bombing. Glide bombs hit the main bridge connecting the island district with the main parts of the city on August 2.
Dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed in Ukraine's southeastern region of Mykolayiv in overnight Russian strikes, authorities said on August 3. Ukraine, meanwhile, struck Russian oil facilities in Sochi, causing a massive fire.
Overnight Russian air attacks on the Ukrainian capital killed at least eight people and wounded dozens -- including 10 children -- on July 31, according to the head of the city’s military administration. The missiles and drones rained down on more than 27 locations in Kyiv, officials said.
Shoreline areas of Kamchatka, Russia, were inundated with vast damage following an 8.8 earthquake offshore that shook up hospitals, airports and other areas. People scrambled for cover as some buildings collapsed while debris fell.
Overnight Russian air attacks across Ukraine on July 28-29 included one of the deadliest single strikes of the three-year war, with more than a dozen killed in a prison in Zaporizhzhya. A hospital in the Dnipropetrovsk region was also hit, killing one pregnant woman.
Several people died overnight on July 25-26 in Russia's latest large-scale air attack on Ukraine, this time focused on the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. Missile, drone, and guided-bomb strikes on Dnipro and surrounding areas caused fires and widespread damage.
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