After Ukraine's military recaptured swaths of territory in the northeast, dramatic pictures have emerged showing masses of military equipment left behind by retreating Russian troops.
An RFE/RL correspondent visits the scenes of destruction six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to see what has changed.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 36th week of 2022 from around RFE/RL's region.
An archive in Serbia holds rare images of the war that freed the Balkans from Ottoman rule 110 years ago. The photographer who made the striking pictures disappeared without a trace.
Russian-imposed authorities in Kherson claim multiple precision rocket strikes on the city’s bridges have had no impact on the Kremlin’s invasion logistics in southern Ukraine. Pictures taken on September 8 appear to suggest otherwise.
The ancient archaeological site of Mohenjo-daro is now in danger of being destroyed in flood-devastated Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has claimed more than 1,300 lives and left millions homeless.
In the past, Ukraine's firefighters had the procedures, the knowledge, and the equipment needed to handle any situation. All of that changed on February 24 with the Russian invasion.
At the Olvio Nuvo vineyard in Ukraine's embattled Mykolayiv region, workers must dodge the cluster munitions that are strewn throughout the fields while picking grapes.
Soldiers from across the Soviet Union left their mark on the walls of a top secret facility built by the Nazis.
In the winter of 1977, Livia Chereches snapped photos of the aftermath of one of modern Europe's worst earthquakes. Then the historic color slides sat in her closet for nearly half a century.
Pristina is pressing ahead with requiring minority ethnic Serbs to use Kosovo-issued car license plates, sparking new tensions in the ethnically divided territory.
As Ukraine's students begin the academic year, a group of children returned to their shattered school in Chernihiv to reflect on how war had affected their lives. The school was shelled in March, and two of the students speak of a classmate who was killed in that attack.
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