Halyna Tereshchuk is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. She graduated from Franko National University in Lviv and worked as a journalist at newspapers and TV stations for many years. She joined Radio Liberty in 2000.
Mothers, wives, and children of Ukrainian soldiers held in Russian captivity rallied on February 24 -- two years after Russia invaded Ukraine. The estimated 300 participants chanted: "Bring the heroes back home!" Some waved Ukrainian flags and displayed the photos of their loved ones.
Polish farmers resumed their blockade of roads along the Ukrainian border as they protested against cheaper imports from their war-torn neighbor. Ukrainian truckers held a counterdemonstration demanding the blockade be lifted so they can return to their country.
Western Ukraine's traditional Yavoriv-style handicrafts are bringing Christmas cheer to visitors at the Vatican and St. Peter's Square.
A group of Polish truckers is in its fourth week of blockading freight vehicles at four checkpoints on the Ukrainian border. Some 4,000 trucks are stuck on roads and drivers are struggling to keep warm while parked in huge lines. The protesters claim Ukrainian cargo companies are competing unfairly.
Russian forces on July 6 launched a deadly cruise missile attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The strike, which destroyed an apartment block, is being called one of the "heaviest attacks" on the city's civilian areas. At least five people were killed in the attack and many wounded.
Russian forces captured Ukrainian soldier Yuriy Kuzminskiy on Snake Island on February 24, 2022. During his nine months in Russian captivity, Kuzminskiy says he was tortured and beaten. He claims Russian special forces were hunting for the Ukrainian soldier who spoke the defiant phrase.
Ukraine is producing new, lightweight body armor designed to protect children from shrapnel during evacuations from combat zones.
A family from Mariupol described going through a Russian filtration camp and then being taken to Moscow. The mother eventually got her children out via Belarus and Poland, while the husband chose to remain. Human Rights Watch calls the practice of forcibly moving Ukrainian citizens a war crime.
A Ukrainian trauma doctor says it took a few days to get used to the carnage after volunteering to serve on the front line. Danylo Sereda says his strongest memory was dealing with a baby in a house that "folded like a house of cards" after a Russian rocket attack.
Tetyana and her two children fled the Black Sea port city of Mariupol on February 25, a day after Russian launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She returned to Ukraine from Italy to marry her partner, Roman, in a ceremony in an ancient wooden church in the western city of Lviv.
Vyacheslav Yalov's mother, Maryna, 37, was killed in the Donbas by Russian shelling as they walked home together. He has now been evacuated to western Ukraine with his two younger brothers and two younger sisters, whom he plans to bring up alone.
Andriy, 15, watched his mother die on a road after their car hit a land mine near the hard-hit city of Chernihiv. She is one of thousands of people killed in Russia's unprovoked invasion -- and he is one of countless scarred survivors.
Rows of 109 empty strollers were placed in Lviv’s old town on March 18 to symbolize the children killed in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The silent protest was also a call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop Russian air and missile attacks.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has displaced thousands of cancer patients, separating them from their medication and records. The oncological center in the western city of Lviv is struggling to help all comers, despite acute shortages of medicines and supplies.
After the discovery of a hideout dating from the Nazi occupation of Lviv, RFE/RL joined one of the urban explorers who are slowly uncovering the mysteries of Lviv's subterranean Poltva River.
It's been 30 years since communist Ukraine was shaken by a coterie of students who went on hunger strike in the heart of Kyiv to demand greater sovereignty and democratic reforms.
Attackers struck another group of Romany campers amid an escalating trend in Ukraine, leaving one man dead.
Ukrainian paratrooper Oleksandr Mashonkin was captured after the hellish fighting at the Donetsk airport in January -- and thrust into another nightmare. The "cyborg," who was released in a prisoner exchange after 197 days in captivity in Donetsk, says he and fellow prisoners were beaten with “pipes, stools, table legs” and even a cross wielded by a priest.
Ukraine's western regions were a driving force behind last year's Maidan protests. Since the start of the war, however, they've been criticized for a growing reluctance to send their men to the front. Many fighting-age men say that loyalty to their country does not translate to loyalty to their government.
RFE/RL's Ukraine Service spoke to Samopomich leader Andriy Sadovyy -- the highly successful mayor of Lviv -- about his plans for building a functioning Ukrainian government, from the ground up.
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