As invading Russian forces approached in February 2022, Oleksiy Savkevych and his family fled eastern Ukraine. But after sending his wife and children to Germany, Savkevych returned to his embattled hometown to work as a volunteer. "I needed to be in Avdiyivka, I couldn't be anywhere else," he said.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia, many of them hungry and exhausted from their travels and worried about the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Photos held in an American archive capture the pomp and ceremony of the Crimean War, while obscuring the horrors of the conflict, which broke out 170 years ago.
Kosovar police displayed weapons, vehicles, ammunition, and other items confiscated during searches in a northern, ethnic Serb-dominated district where an attack on an Orthodox monastery left four people dead, including a police officer.
Kyiv has said that its use of heavy weapons supplied by the West is inflicting a significant toll on Russian forces near Bakhmut. RFE/RL cannot independently verify battlefield claims made by either side.
Two years after U.S. troops left, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd returned to Afghanistan with an idea: to use an old-style Afghan "box camera" to document how life has changed under Taliban rule.
An exodus from the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in the face of a lightning offensive launched by Baku is fueling a political crisis in Armenia.
A fifth of Russia's gold reserves are mined in the Krasnoyarsk region. The effects of alluvial gold mining on the local population and rivers are frequently catastrophic.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 38th week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region.
U.S.-made depleted uranium sabot tank rounds are on their way to Ukraine. Here is what the ammunition can do, and why it is so controversial.
Following a lightning military offensive by Azerbaijani forces in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, an estimated 10,000 evacuees are seeking shelter without basic living conditions in basements, while others have massed at an airport in hopes of fleeing to Armenia.
A stretch of dead forest and the equally lifeless village of Andriyivka lie on the road to Russian-controlled Bakhmut, which has taken on huge symbolic significance in the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The Associated Press spent two weeks with the brigade for an intimate glimpse of life in battle.
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