Roksolana Bychai is a reporter for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
Russian strikes with Iranian-built drones targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on October 17.
The Ukrainian Army, National Guard, and State Border Guard Service have been conducting joint exercises near the border with Belarus. The Ukrainian military demonstrated for journalists how their forces would handle an invasion by their northern neighbor.
Anna Zaitseva, the wife of an Azov Battalion soldier, was taken to the Bezimenne filtration camp east of Mariupol. Body-cavity searches in unhygienic conditions and threats followed. "I know that they said to other women that they would send them the heads of their husbands in a box," Zaitseva said.
Survivors of a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsya on July 14 recount the shock and violence they endured. Many were stunned to see rockets hitting a commercial zone in a civilian area far from the front lines.
