Yulia Ratsybarska has been working as a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in Dnipro since 2006.
Ukraine’s Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil will compete against 25 other countries in the May 11 final of Eurovision, the annual pop extravaganza. Their music comes with a mission – raising over $250,000 in donations to rebuild a village school badly damaged by Russian bombardments.
Residents of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro brought candles, flowers, and toys to the ruins of an apartment building on January 14, exactly one year after it was destroyed by a Russian missile. The strike on the nine-story block near the Dnipro River left 46 dead, among them six children.
At a shelter for displaced Ukrainians in Dnipro, volunteers prepare for the second New Year’s under the shadow of all-out war. Speaking with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, residents are finding small ways to celebrate, each act of gratitude a small victory over Russia’s drive to break their spirit.
For Ukrainians, the war with Russia began nine years ago with the Maidan protests and the February 2014 events that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power. RFE/RL looks at three men whose paths took a fatal turn during those early days and who gave their lives for the cause they took up then.
The Ukrainian government is pushing ahead with the rapid implementation of new laws banning public-place names honoring Soviet figures. A committee in the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk has begun the complicated process of rooting out its communist legacy.
This week's surprise ouster of oligarch and Dnipropetrovsk Governor Ihor Kolomoyskiy has prompted strong emotions among locals, who -- love him or hate him -- acknowledge the key role he's played in keeping the eastern region safe.
In the eastern Donbas region, volunteers delivering food and supplies to Ukrainian soldiers aren't leaving empty-handed. They're carrying out animals abandoned by their owners and left to fend for themselves in the war zone.
Two young men became the first victims of Ukraine's Euromaidan protests when they were shot dead on January 22 during violent clashes between protesters and police in Kyiv. RFE/RL profiles the two men that many protesters are calling "true Ukrainian patriots": Serhiy Nihoyan, an ethnic Armenian; and Mikhail Zhyzneuski, a native of Belarus.
On November 23, Ukraine marks the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor, the man-made famine that left millions of people dead over the course of 1932-33. RFE/RL spoke to some of the last remaining Holodomor survivors about the terror of slow starvation.
