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Saddling up is something most Ukrainian soldier amputees never imagined doing. But horseback sessions, known as hippotherapy -- long in practice for wounded fighters -- has proven a success. The calming rides reduce stress and build confidence for the wounded soldiers.
A Russian man who covered his store with the names of Ukrainian cities that have been bombed by Russia could face up to five years in prison. Dmitry Skurikhin faces two criminal cases of "discrediting the Russian Army" for painting his store in the village of Russko-Vysotskoye near St. Petersburg.
A regional head of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service has been found dead at his home in central Ukraine, the Prosecutor-General's Office said on August 21.
We asked people on the streets of the Ukrainian capital how they felt about the decision to stop teaching the Russian language in Kyiv's schools from September 1.
Ukrainian emergency services held a nuclear disaster drill in the country's Zaporizhzhya region on August 17 after repeated shelling at the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian forces captured the Zaporizhzhya site in early March.
Yana and her mother, Natalya Stepanenko, both lost lower limbs in a Russian rocket attack on the Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine's Donetsk region on April 8. Now, both are learning to walk on prostheses at a rehabilitation center in the United States.
A court in Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea has sentenced a local DJ to 10 days in jail for playing a video clip of a song by Ukrainian rapper Yarmak.
People in the Latvian capital, Riga, are reacting to the decision of the country's lawmakers to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Some 150 wives of Islamic State militants and their children were recently returned to Tajikistan from a camp in Syria, but their current whereabouts are unknown. Their families are worried that the women have been imprisoned.
Jailed Russian opposition politician and outspoken Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has established a labor union in the penal colony where he is currently being held.
Several explosions have been reported in an area of Belarus near a military airport that Ukrainian authorities say has been used by the Russian Air Force to attack Ukrainian territory.
A businessman known as "Putin's chef" has now developed "a taste for business in blood," according to a leading Russian campaigner for prisoners' rights. Olga Romanova said that Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin had personally visited prisons to recruit convicts to fight in Ukraine.
We joined a Ukrainian Army crew manning a German Panzerhaubitze 2000, a self-propelled, long-range howitzer, as it opened fire on Russian positions. After firing a salvo, the crew hid the weapon system among trees and broken branches. They said Russian drones were hunting the howitzers.
During 21 days of occupation, a Ukrainian farmer says Russian troops inflicted $600,000 worth of damage on his property in Lukashivka in Ukraine's Chernihiv region. He says about 500 Russian soldiers slaughtered almost 100 of his cows for food and stole or destroyed farm equipment.
The head of Amnesty International's Ukraine office has resigned, accusing the rights watchdog of parroting Kremlin propaganda in a report that criticized Kyiv's military response to Russia's unprovoked invasion.
Belarusian exiles are volunteering to do military training in Poland with the aim of going to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces. But some also hope to one day return to Belarus and play a role in ousting Belarus's autocratic leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Hundreds of Ukrainians have found their only escape route from Russia's 6-month-old war is into Russia. Jonas Luskiavic, a Latvian volunteer driver, has given up his profession as a shoemaker to help Ukrainians get to the European Union. A Ukrainian family recounts trekking on foot to make it out.
Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko spent time with the Ukrainian crew of a Grad rocket system on the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Eight people died in a blaze in a 15-story hostel in Moscow overnight after a fire alarm malfunctioned, officials said July 29.
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith, commenting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has said that "Russia could stop the war tomorrow if it wanted to." Speaking to RFE/RL, she continued: "We are trying to apply all the pressure that we can on Moscow to change Putin's strategic calculus."
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