Yury Baranyuk is a senior writer/producer at Current Time.
Vitaliy Shumey is being treated at a specialist neurorehabilitation center in Spain after losing part of his skull in a Russian attack. His case, and his father's devoted care, have attracted widespread attention in Ukraine.
Supporters of Memorial say a wave of searches and new criminal cases signals that the Kremlin seeks to completely erase the embattled Russian human rights group -- which has led the way in revealing the crimes of the Soviet government against its own people for decades -- from public memory.
Soviet-era T-72 tanks are getting new optics, armor, and more at a Czech facility in Sternberk, thanks in part to the efforts of Ukrainian refugees working there. Some 150 people have been hired by Excalibur Army to modernize old military equipment.
Ukrainian forces are busy after the Russian retreat: exhuming bodies, hunting collaborators, and demining. But the first thing they do is tear down the invader's flag, and replace it with their own.
The popular Russian-language cartoon Masyanya is trending on YouTube after a new episode in which China invades Russia in order to save it from fascism. Russia used the same baseless pretext to launch its February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
The Moscow-appointed head of Ukraine's Kherson region said weeks after Russia's invasion that his "soul" was Ukrainian. Now he has a fast-tracked Russian passport.
By some estimates, Russia has lost more soldiers in 15 weeks of war in Ukraine than in the entire 10-year Soviet war in Afghanistan. Moscow is getting creative in how it’s recruiting more soldiers for the fight.
Russia has been sustaining "incredible" losses since the start of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official says, putting the figure at more than 10,000 killed since the attack was launched just over a month ago.
In an interview with Current Time on March 29, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said Russia's negotiating position with Ukraine in Istanbul has been: "Capitulate and then maybe we'll talk."
As thousands of migrants sought passage into Poland from Belarus, the few who made it through received life-saving supplies and refuge from a network of Polish activists and volunteer medics who have worked throughout the crisis to help those they believe deserve entry into the European Union.
The Moscow Metro has touted a new facial-recognition payment system as the first mass-scale use of a technology that will bring greater convenience to people's everyday lives. But its launch in Russia has raised concerns about the system's possible misuse for surveillance purposes.
