Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reportedly visited Mariupol recently, a city that remains largely ruined a year after the devastating Russian encirclement.
Combat medic Yana Rykhlitska worked under fire and intense pressure in Bakhmut, tending to wounded and dying Ukrainian soldiers. On March 3, she was killed, reportedly by Russian artillery fire.
Ukrainian troops are putting up fierce opposition as Moscow's forces close in on the eastern city of Bakhmut.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the ninth week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region.
Photos made by Soviet photographers, and one American observer, show the funeral of the U.S.S.R's most infamous dictator as viewed from behind the scenes and in front of the official cameras.
A team of volunteers and their highly trained dogs have become a vital part of Ukraine's war effort, searching for the living and retrieving the dead from buildings destroyed by Russian strikes.
The cleanup has started at the Kon-Tiki motel, a famous prewar gathering place for Sarajevo residents. The place was turned into a prison camp for Bosniaks and Croats during the war in the 1990s.
A large-scale artwork depicting a 1920 Polish victory over invading Red Army forces in a church in northwestern Belarus has been painted over by the authorities after pro-government media criticized the historic mural.
Bomb shelters from the Soviet era have replaced the homes of villagers who were caught up in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
More than 2,100 Pakistani police personnel have been killed and 7,000 injured since 2001, but never have they been the target of militants' operations to the degree they are today.
After supply chains from China were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, Bosnian furniture manufacturers edged into the luxury European market.
Recent vandalism of a famous column to the Red Army in central Sofia is the latest in a string of symbolic anti-Kremlin attacks on the memorial.
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