The swift fall of Izyum in the Kharkiv region has been seen as perhaps Moscow's worst defeat since the retreat from Kyiv in March. Photojournalists visited the liberated city on the Siverskiy Donets River and captured these scenes of devastation wrought by the Russian invasion and occupation.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, it not only upended the lives of many people, but it wreaked havoc on children in institutional care.
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.
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