Ukrainian farmers are being forced to work at gunpoint and some have had their farms confiscated, according to reports from inside Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. Meanwhile, farmers on Ukrainian-held land are wearing bulletproof vests and helmets to protect themselves as they work.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have spoken to the media a day after their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The port city of Mariupol was home to 400,000 people before Russia's invasion. It has been under siege by Russian troops and under constant shelling for more than 50 days. The city has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are believed to have died there.
Russian forces have been accused of committing atrocities in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
The town of Irpin, northeast of the Ukrainian capital, was recently liberated by Ukrainian forces and has been reduced to an eerie wasteland of burned-out buildings, shattered vehicles, and bodies still lying in the streets.
Ukrainian civilians who have escaped from the besieged port city of Mariupol have described scenes of "hell" and say those who remain in the ruins are on the brink of starvation. Russian forces have surrounded the city and have been pounding it with artillery and rocket fire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot win in his war against Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said on March 26 during a visit to Warsaw. He also told a crowd in the Polish capital that the Russian president "cannot remain in power."
Gunfire and the sounds of explosions were heard in the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych after residents protested against Russian occupation. The city's mayor, Yuriy Fomychev, was filmed addressing crowds saying the Russians had agreed to vacate the city center.
A 27-year-old Ukrainian mother was wounded while protecting her baby during a Russian missile attack. The woman -- named Olha -- was injured as she was breastfeeding her child in Kyiv's Podil district on March 18.
As Russian forces continue to pound the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, an estimated 300,000 trapped residents are struggling to survive.
With Russian forces besieging the Ukrainian capital, a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service filmed the aftermath of an early-morning strike on a Kyiv apartment block on February 26 -- the third day of the Russian military attack against Ukraine.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, spoke out against Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize areas controlled by separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk as independent.
In televised remarks from the White House in Washington on February 15 U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian Defense Ministry’s statements that some military units are leaving their positions near the border with Ukraine have still not been verified on the ground.
The march on February 12 came amid increasing warnings by the West that a Russian invasion could be imminent.
Concern is rising among many Hungarians living near the Ukrainian border as fears over a Russian attack on Ukraine have grown. RFE/RL spoke to people in the Hungarian villages of Zahony and Gemzse and asked them how hostilities might affect the border region.
The U.S. troops reinforcing NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid a Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border arrived on February 10 at a military base in Romania.
Ahead of parliamentary elections in Hungary, a group of volunteers are printing and distributing their own newsletter aimed at countering what they say is a government stranglehold on media in rural areas.
Thousands of residents of Ukraine's second-biggest city marched through the city center on February 5 carrying national flags to demonstrate patriotic spirit amid tensions with Russia.
The first Ukrainian troops have been given training with NLAW (new-generation light anti-tank weapons) delivered by Britain to boost Kyiv's defenses as Russia continues to mass forces on the border.
Several thousand protesters against a proposed rise in energy prices scuffled with police blocking the entrance to Kosovo's government building on January 29.
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