Alyona Yatsyna is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
At least 12 people, including one child, were killed in a Russian air attack on the city of Hlukhiv in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region. The November 19 strike hit a dormitory that housed displaced people who had been evacuated to Hlukhiv from an embattled area closer to the border with Russia.
Residents of Kyiv expressed mixed reactions on November 6 after Republican Donald Trump secured victory over his Democratic challenger Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election.
At least three people, including a child, were killed as Russian drones struck a housing area in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on the night of October 21-22. The morning after, firefighters were still extinguishing flames amid the ruined homes.
Streets were lined for dozens of kilometers on July 17 by Ukrainians welcoming 95 soldiers who returned home on a convoy of buses following a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. Some are back after more than two years in Russian detention centers.
At least one woman was killed and three others wounded in the Ukrainian town of Bilopillya, in the Sumy region, local officials said on April 8. Another Russian attack on April 9 hit the building of the local children's boarding school in the town of Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region.
Russia has dramatically increased attacks on the Ukrainian border town of Velyka Pysarivka, where our journalists witnessed the destruction caused by hundreds of aerial bombs, rockets, artillery shells, and drones.
