Yevhen Solonyna is a correspondent in Kyiv for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
As of January 30, Ukraine's 15 nuclear power reactors are in operation for only the second time ever. It's less an achievement, though, than a reflection of the energy squeeze the country is facing as Russia roils its market.
In Ukraine, tensions between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and powerful tycoon Rinat Akhmetov are growing. How their conflict plays out could have major consequences for the country and its influential oligarchs.
Advocates say a budding bioenergy project in Zhytomyr shows how Ukraine could turn to wood and plant waste to reduce its reliance on natural gas to heat homes. But subsidized gas prices for heating companies discourage them from switching to biomass, keeping the country dependent on Russian fuel.
As Russia seeks to get natural gas flowing through a highly controversial Baltic Sea pipeline that bypasses Ukraine, it has halted steam coal shipments and is holding off on selling electricity to its neighbor amid severely strained ties, deepening the country's energy woes as winter approaches.
Beijing pressured Kyiv to withdraw its support from an inquiry into human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have told RFE/RL.
RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside Chernobyl's radioactive ruins.
Russian authorities have seized several assets at a candy factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Russian city of Lipetsk. The move is certain to complicate Poroshenko's attempts to divest himself of his holdings. But some critics suggest he's not all that eager to sell.
Russia's military buildup continues along Ukraine's eastern border, fueling expectations that, sooner or later, war will come, despite Moscow's assurances to the contrary.
The battle of wills between Kyiv and Moscow has escalated with the publication of a document purporting to be the Kremlin's plan for preventing Ukraine's integration with the European Union.
A woman’s accusation of a brutal rape by village police officers in Ukraine unleashed a firestorm of public outrage last week. Now more accusations are emerging that police in the town have committed and covered up similar crimes in the past.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is famously bad with words. But that hasn't stopped him from earning more than $2 million as the author of numerous books on politics and foreign investment. Observers say such a deal isn't entirely unrealistic -- as long as everyone in Ukraine buys at least two copies of each of his books.
Long-simmering political tensions in Ukraine have resurfaced again recently, as soccer fans in Kyiv have taken to taunting their eastern countrymen in ribald, irreverent verse.
