As the possibility of a Russian invasion continues to loom, Ukraine’s leaders have been seeking to assuage the population’s fears. Ukrainians have been trading war-preparation advice on social media channels. Life goes on as usual on the streets of Kyiv, the capital, and many people are hesitant to discuss the tensions openly
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the killing of almost 34,000 Jews by German forces in the Babi Yar ravine outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 29-30, 1941, during World War II. In Los Angeles, there is a memorial to the victims, where many people gather to light candles in their honor
New York, Ukraine, is a town of 10,000 people that was recently shelled by separatists backed by Russia. The meaning of its name is unknown. Some attribute it to 19th-century German settlers, while others cite evidence dating back to the 18th century. It was renamed Novgorodskoe by Soviet officials in 1951, but the Ukrainian parliament agreed last month to restore the town’s original name
The Tisza River, A Major Tributary Of The Danube, Flows From Ukraine Into Hungary, Bringing Hundreds Of Tonnes Of Trash With It Every Year. Hungary Has Encouraged Ukraine To Deal With Its Garbage Before It Becomes A Global Problem, But There Is No Simple Answer In Sight
On June 17, outside Balochistan’s Provincial Assembly building in Quetta, Pakistan, opposition MPs staged a protest..Kateryna Handziuk, an anti-corruption campaigner and public official who died three months after being seriously injured in an acid assault, was remembered at a demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine
Most Ukrainian hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. The number of hospitalizations over the past month has increased dramatically and many medical facilities are suffering from an acute oxygen shortage
RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside the concrete sarcophagus of Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 in 2018 for a rare and risky glimpse at the stricken power plant’s radioactive ruins
In the city of Ovruch in the Zhytomyrregion of Ukraine, the number of patients with COVID-19 continues to grow and the government has already designated the region a “red zone” for its high rate of new cases. RFE/RL visited the regional hospital and spoke with Viktoria Lytkivska, a doctor who has been treating patients since the start of the pandemic
All of Ukraine’s statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015. But in three small villages, indomitable Lenins still hold out — due to lack of money for demolition, apathy, and, in one case, a road so bad they couldn’t get a crane to it
The situation in many Ukrainian hospitals is critical, doctors say, after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the country