A digital camera retrieved by fighters in eastern Ukraine holds images of one family in peacetime and the invading Russian soldiers that apparently looted the device.
Emmanuel Durand, a French engineer and 3D data capture expert, has been volunteering his time to create a digital blueprint that preservationists, architects, and engineers can use to repair landmarks damaged by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
How relatively cheap Turkish drones have had an outsized impact on recent conflicts.
Ukrainian servicemen and civilians in the small town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, continue to feel the full onslaught of advancing Russian forces.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
Photographs of Russian artillery and rockets embedded in trees capture the intensity of fighting in Ukraine.
The day of Saints Cyril and Methodius -- the creators of the precursor to the Cyrillic alphabet -- was marked by large crowds and solemn religious ceremonies across Bulgaria on May 23-24.
Ukrainian fighters are ushering in a new era of battlefield tactics by using powerful locally designed electric bikes.
Afghan volunteers have organized a mobile educational program to tour remote areas, giving children hope after the Taliban closed schools for girls in March. An Afghan NGO, Pen Path, gives lessons and library books to children who might otherwise be starved of any opportunity to learn.
AFP photographer Aris Messinis captures the intensity of fighting in the Donbas as mortar shells rain down around his car. These photos were taken on May 23 as civilians tried to make their way along an important link road near Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine.
There were echoes of Russia's socialist past on May 22 as a sign-up parade was held in front of the Kremlin for a resurrected version of the Young Pioneers, a communist-era youth organization that just marked its 100th anniversary.
As battles rage in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, people living in the strategic Black Sea port city of Odesa are trying to live life as normally as possible. Odesa has been hit by Russian missiles, but the city has so far been been spared any full-scale assault.
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