Roksolana Bychai is a reporter for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is conducting Ukraine’s biggest government shake-up since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Here’s a look at the goals, timing, and potential effects of a move the wartime leader says will generate “new energy” but that critics say will change little.
RFE/RL asked Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv what they think about Biden's decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and how it might impact Ukraine.
Lyudmila Menyuk, a veteran of Russia's war on Ukraine, helps military families through therapy. She offers them the understanding and support she would have wanted for her son, Stanislav Menuyk, who died in 2014 as a paramedic on a combat mission in the Donbas region.
Ukrainians welcomed news that the U.S. House of Representatives had passed a long-delayed aid bill critical to Ukraine's defense against Russia’s ongoing invasion. Speaking to RFE/RL on April 21, many Kyiv residents said the $61 billion package could help slow advancing Russian forces.
A barista continued to serve guests even after Russian missile strikes damaged her Kyiv coffeehouse. "How could they break us?" she said while making coffee beneath a smashed shop window. Ukrainian air defenses downed Russian missiles early on March 25, but missile debris wounded several people.
Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren says Ukraine should receive its first F-16 fighter jets this summer as Europe pushes to aid Kyiv amid complications sparked by a stalled aid package in the U.S. Congress.
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.
Ukrainian rescuers managed to pull a family's pet birds from the debris of their damaged apartment block after a massive Russian aerial assault hit Kyiv and Kharkiv on January 2. RFE/RL journalist Roksolana Bychai captured the family's emotional reunion with their beloved pets.
Residents of a Kyiv apartment building heard a Russian attack drone heading for their building on December 22 and scrambled to survive. Dozens of drones targeted the Ukrainian capital, causing injuries. The strike in the Solomenskiy district terrorized families but no fatalities were reported.
On October 27, missiles rained down on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. RFE/RL correspondent Roksolana Bychai and cameraman Borys Trotsenko were at the scene and recorded the first minutes after the attack.
Ukrainian soldier Petro Voloshchenko first encountered 7-year-old Stas living with his family in a half-destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut. Voloshchenko's unit helped them to get out. Stas's family was given an apartment in Dnipro, where they have started a new life.
An 8-year-old Ukraine boy who suffered burns to 80 percent of his body following an air strike has returned home after undergoing over 30 operations in Germany. Roman Oleksiv was injured and his mother was killed in a July 2022 Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsya
Ukrainian soldier Serhiy Raylyan, 26, lost both his legs and his eyesight after his vehicle drove over a mine in the summer of 2022 near the front line in Ukraine's Donetsk region. He's now starting to walk again with prosthetic limbs and hopes to regain some vision.
Russia continues to hit Ukrainian cities with drone and missile strikes. RFE/RL filmed inside a heavily damaged apartment on the 25th floor of a 26-story residential building overlooking the Dnieper River in Kyiv on July 13. A man living in the apartment was lightly injured by shrapnel.
Ukrainian survivors of a Russian drone attack, the latest in a wave of at least 17 strikes this month, described running for their lives on May 30 as their apartments burned and crumbled. A residential area of Kyiv was hit by attack drones in the predawn hours.
As fighting intensifies in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian forces in the northern Rivne region were undergoing intensive training on February 11. Troops practiced ambushes and attacks to prepare against possible airborne invaders.
Ukrainian combat medic Oksana Lebedenko lost contact with her 11-year-old daughter Yeva after Russian forces occupied her hometown of Vovchansk in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. Lebedenko later discovered that her pro-Russian brother had taken her daughter to Russia without permission.
Life in the recently liberated city of Kherson is a constant struggle for locals. Russian forces continue to shell the war-torn regional capital. Although supermarket chains have started to reopen, residents say they need greater support during the cold winter months.
When Russian forces occupied Arkhanhelske, a settlement in the Kherson region, they are said to have set up a military base at a local school building. The school director, Oleh Sobchuk, says the Russians used the building to interrogate and torture locals.
Russian strikes with Iranian-built drones targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on October 17.
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