Serhiy Nuzhnenko is a photojournalist for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
RFE/RL captured dramatic footage as Russia launched massive air strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As firefighters doused the flames, a man was furious that his business had been destroyed. "They're subhumans," he said.
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service lived with one of the soldiers tasked with dismantling explosives on the battlefields of Ukraine.
Two people were injured by falling drone fragments in a Russian strike on Kyiv early on November 7. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the attack started fires and caused damage in five districts of the Ukrainian capital.
Rescuers extricated an unconscious person from beneath the rubble after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital. The woman was alive, RFE/RL reported from the residential Shevchenkivskiy district. Russian missiles and drones hit various parts of Ukraine on July 8, claiming at least 29 lives.
A children's hospital in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has been damaged following a Russian missile attack, authorities said. A video taken by RFE/RL's Serhiy Nuzhnenko at the site showed lines of people helping to clear the debris as smoke billowed out of the facility.
Ukrainian soldiers knelt down as they paid their last respects to British medic Peter Fouche on July 6. The South African-born Londoner co-founded a charity providing support to Ukrainian soldiers and evacuating civilians from the war zone. He joined the military as a combat medic in January.
Ukrainians are celebrating their third Easter since Russia's all-out invasion. Liturgies took place at Kyiv's most famous Orthodox centers. Greek Catholics gathered at their Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.
Russian drones hit civilian buildings in Kyiv on the night of November 24-25. The air-raid alert was in force for more than six hours. RFE/RL filmed a damaged apartment building and a kindergarten in Kyiv's western Solomyanskiy district.
Influential Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskiy arrived at the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv on September 2 as a suspect in a fraud and money-laundering case. The judge ordered the arrest of the billionaire and said he should be kept in pretrial detention for 60 days.
The Ukrainian capital has completed dismantling the Soviet emblem from the Motherland monument towering in the center of the city. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry plans to have the Ukrainian trident instead of the old Soviet coat of arms on the statue by Independence Day, August 24.
What Did You Do Before The War? Ukrainian Troops Recall Peacetime Jobs Barista, mayor, musician, mechanic, electrician, and many other professions -- RFE/RL correspondent Serhiy Nuzhnenko asked Ukrainian military personnel what they had been in civilian life.
In March 2022, at the height of the Russian invasion, RFE/RL's Serhiy Nuzhnenko was one of the first photojournalists to enter the still contested town of Bucha. More than one year on, the photographer has visited the sites of some of his photographs of devastation to find a town transformed.
A Ukrainian Army spokesman said on May 22 that Russian forces walked straight into a "trap" in Bakhmut, with Ukrainian troops advancing on the flanks of the town poised to encircle them.
A team of RFE/RL journalists joined Ukrainian troops as they began attacking near Bakhmut and fitted a soldier with a bodycam to record a firsthand view of battle. The troops advanced through a shell-shattered forest, passing the bodies of Russian troops before capturing one Russian soldier.
Near the front line, Ukrainian doctors fight in a daily battle between life and death. RFE/RL spent a day at a field hospital near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, which Russian forces are attempting to capture.
Russian strikes with Iranian-built drones targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on October 17.
Ukraine has reported dozens of missile strikes across its territory, including the capital, Kyiv, in a significant escalation of Russian attacks. This follows a massive explosion over the weekend that knocked down part of the bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
Ukrainian authorities say one person was killed and four were injured in Kyiv's Shevchenko district in an explosion blamed on Russian missile strikes early on June 26. Firefighters rushed to rescue residents trapped inside an apartment building.
People in Kyiv voiced shock after a massive Russian air strike destroyed a shopping mall and also hit residential buildings. At least eight people were reported to have been killed. One man, who lives a kilometer away, said: "I have never felt the earth shake like that.... They are killing my city."
Kyiv has awoken to new scenes of utter devastation after a Russian air strike late on March 20 destroyed a shopping mall. Ukraine's prosecutor-general said at least eight people had been killed in the attack, which also hit residential buildings.
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