Yevhenia Kytaiva-Rusetska has been a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service since 2023. She has spent seven years covering combat operations and their consequences.
A 17-year-old orphan recently returned to Ukraine after spending 13 months in Russia, where she was taken against her will by Russian forces that occupied the orphanage she was living in. The story of Lydia Vlasenko has a happy ending, but thousands more Ukrainian orphans remain in captivity.
An RFE/RL film crew were recording dozens of kilometers from the front line in Ukraine's Donetsk region, when they were suddenly rocked by explosions. Journalists Yevheniia Kytaiva and Anna Kudriavtseva were unharmed and scrambled to provide first aid to wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
