Oleksandr Mazur is a freelance cameraman for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Anton Smetskiy was a professional dancer in Kyiv before fighting against Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A mine took his right foot in combat, but he's determined to once again perform onstage.
Eyewitnesses have spoken of their horror as a helicopter crashed into a Ukrainian kindergarten on the morning of January 18. According to the latest figures 14 people were killed, including a child, as well as Ukraine's interior minister and other senior officials who were in the helicopter.
An RFE/RL Ukrainian Service team filmed emergency services working at the scene of the fatal helicopter crash in Brovary, near Kyiv, on January 18. Firemen covered bodies of victims amid the wreckage.
The head of the State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine, Yevhen Metsher, announced he was stepping down pending an investigation of an assault on RFE/RL journalists during an interview with him in Kyiv.
