Conflict

Saving Ukraine’s Abandoned Animals

As Ukrainians flee the Russian invasion, volunteers are rescuing left pets stranded in Kyiv and the capital’s suburbs.

27 Apr 22

The ruins of Petro's house after it was hit by four rockets. © IWPR

Life on the Chernobyl Front

Frontier folk, wedged between the Belarus border and the nuclear exclusion zone, faced fierce live fighting, theft and intimidation.

27 Apr 22

Easter in Kyiv, Sunday 24 April '22

"I wish us the expulsion of Russian foreign occupiers from our homeland and, of course, victory."

24 Apr 22

A rally and a street exhibition in memory of the journalists who died in the war, Lviv, March 31, 2022. © IWPR

Ukraine: Journalists “Are Russia’s First Target”

Numbers of dead and wounded media workers mount as conflict continues.

22 Apr 22

The Road to Freedom from Occupied Kherson

Desperate civilians are taking any opportunity to leave, cramming into private cars or extortionate fees to get through checkpoints.

21 Apr 22

An auto and tyre repair shop 2.5 kilometres from Lviv’s main station was hit by Russian shells on 18 April, 2022. © IWPR

War Comes to Lviv

Seven people reported killed as bombs hit workshop near main railway station.

20 Apr 22

Viktor Medvechuk, leader of the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform - For Life, was arrested in western Ukraine on 12 April after weeks on the run. © Ukrainian Security Service (SBU)

Ukraine to Outlaw Pro-Russian Political Parties

The detention of key Putin associate may expedite a wider ban on blocs close to the Kremlin.

20 Apr 22

Deminer, Vladyslav Shapoval from the Kharkiv emergency response services unit remove part of a Grad rocket from a park after a recent Russian attack on April 15, 2022 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Ukraine: Liberated Areas Riddled With Mines

More than 13 per cent of the country needs demining. It will take decades and more than 250 billion US dollars.

19 Apr 22

Rustam Zarifulin was reportedly killed on March 14 while fighting with the Russian army in the town of Izium, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. He moved to the Russian region of Sverdlovsk in 2016, where he served in the army and then became a contract soldier. He was buried in Chui, Kyrgyzstan's northernmost region, on March 27. © Kloop.kg

Central Asians Fight in Ukraine Eyeing Russian Citizenship

To bolster its troops, Moscow is tempting foreign nationals with the offer of a passport.

19 Apr 22

Ukraine: Aid Volunteers Pay the Price

Humanitarian workers killed by Russian troops as they brought aid to Borodyanka.

14 Apr 22

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