Current Time is the Russian-language TV and digital network run by RFE/RL.
People in five Russian locales offered a range of answers on how to better spend money being used to pay for the war in Ukraine. Many noted that their cities and social services were in dire need of help, while others said they would like to see money spent on both the war and increased pensions.
In the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, a local Red Cross group has formed a group of volunteer cyclists to deliver essentials to vulnerable elderly people. The city is being shelled constantly by Russian forces and water supplies have been severed.
Oksana Balandina, a nurse, lost both her legs and four fingers on one hand in a mine explosion in March. She also lost her will to live, but her family has restored her spirits. At the hospital where she is being treated, they held a wedding ceremony for her and her partner, Viktor Vasylyev.
Current Time reporter Borys Sachalko comes under shellfire as he accompanies a Red Cross team attempting to evacuate a village that lies between Russian-occupied Kherson and Ukrainian-held Mikolayiv in southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian farmers are being forced to work at gunpoint and some have had their farms confiscated, according to reports from inside Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. Meanwhile, farmers on Ukrainian-held land are wearing bulletproof vests and helmets to protect themselves as they work.
Since Russia began its new invasion of Ukraine on February 24, journalists from RFE/RL and Current Time have been in the thick of the action. From frontline combat, to the flood of refugees, casualty wards, and gathering evidence of war crimes, they have chronicled every aspect of the war.
Ukrainians who've undergone the Russian vetting process known as "filtration" describe arbitrary violence and threats, explicit or implied, and KGB-like questions to test fleeing civilians' loyalty.
Members of a local council in Moscow who spoke out against their country's invasion of Ukraine are now facing criminal proceedings that could carry a 10-year prison sentence. One councilor said it would be a "show trial."
Residents of the village of Yahidne in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region say that over 300 of them were held in a school basement for 28 days in March by Russian forces. They say that they were only allowed out once per day for 20 minutes and that several villagers were shot by soldiers.
French authorities say they have impounded a villa in the city of Biarritz belonging to Kirill Shamalov, the former husband of Katerina Tikhonova, a daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Ukrainian man has recounted how Russian troops told him he was about to be executed, before firing close to his ears. He said he was one of a number of men subjected to fake executions in this way while being held captive in a basement.
Thousands of domestic dogs and cats have been lost or abandoned since Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24. One of the shelters where animals are taken from war zones is in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where 150 dogs and almost 200 cats are currently being looked after.
One of the most famous anti-war protesters in St. Petersburg is 77-year-old artist Yelena Osipova, who is known by many as "the conscience of the city." Osipova openly expresses her views even though more than 15,000 people have already been detained in Russia for participating in peaceful protests.
Ukrainian mine-clearance teams are combing through urban and agricultural land for unexploded munitions left behind following two months of Russian shelling. Current Time reporter Borys Sachalko and camerman Serhiy Dykun watched the teams at work near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Russian authorities have designated the former head of an independent radio station, a longtime ally of a jailed opposition leader, and seven others as "foreign agents" in a crackdown that has intensified since Russia launched all-out war in Ukraine eight weeks ago.
A 25-year-old Russian soldier has posted a video blog of his time in Ukraine, showing him and his comrades firing at Ukrainian positions and cavorting in occupied apartments.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Ukrainian city of Mariupol had been "liberated" after nearly two months of fighting, but U.S. President Joe Biden said this claim was "questionable" as he announced another $1.3 billion in U.S. aid for Ukraine.
Thousands of people have been lining up at Kyiv's main post office to buy a stamp honoring defiant Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island. In February, they refused to surrender to the Russian warship, the Moskva, which has since sunk.
Across Ukraine, moves are being made to "de-Russify," with names of streets being changed and statues removed. Three cities have even taken down statues of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The authorities in Kharkiv are considering similar measures. Local historian Pylyp Dykan explained why
A Ukrainian mother tells how her 13-year-old son was killed when she and her children tried to flee a village occupied by Russian forces. Inna says that, at first, Russian troops allowed her family to leave and even waved goodbye, but then opened fire at the cars they were traveling in.
Load more
