eastern Ukraine

A bunch of flowers with the colors of the Ukrainian flag is laid down at the memorial for those killed during the war, near Maidan Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.
Ukraine
‘The war is not over yet’: Ukraine marks 10-year anniversary of pivotal Maidan Revolution
Good Bread Bakery is baking and sending thousands of loaves of bread to the frontlines.
Ukraine
Volunteers in Ukraine organize to ‘fill in gaps’ in ongoing war
Players from Tavriya Simferopol huddle together at a match earlier this year.
Sports
War disrupts Ukrainian soccer, but the game still goes on
A visitor feeds straw to the zoo's four giraffes from outside their enclosure.
Ukraine
Ukraine’s zoos struggle to stay afloat during war, with traumatized animals and dwindling resources
A picture of victims of the MH17 crash rests on empty chairs during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands March 8, 2020.
Justice
Start of MH17 murder trial offers some ‘relief,’ victim’s mother says
A close up of an eyeglass lens being cut
Jobs
Ukrainian eyeglasses market brings pains of deindustrialization into focus
A man in a suit with his hands gesturing
Conflict & Justice
After 5 years of conflict, Ukraine’s barrier to peace is still ‘Russia’s political will’
Media professionals sit in control room with brightly lit screens
Media
Ukraine’s public broadcasters want a free press. Can they survive the politics?
A man claps in the foreground as confetti floats through the air
Global Politics
Ukraine voters reject status quo in vote for ‘absolutely unprepared’ president
A man with a microphone in front of bright lights gives a peace sign.
Global Politics
This Ukrainian presidential candidate is challenging language divisions with a message of unity
Alexander Borodai (C), former prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, poses with delegates during the Union of Donbass Volunteers congress in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 10, 2015.
Conflict
Russia’s shadow armies: Soldiers, mercenaries or volunteers?
Youth squad in Donetsk
Conflict
Soviet-style youth squads are making a comeback in eastern Ukraine
A member of a tank crew from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Army sits on top of a tank at a checkpoint on the road from the town of Vuhlehirsk to Debaltseve on February 18, 2015.
Conflict
How judo master Putin has outmaneuvered the West over Ukraine’s ceasefire
Police int self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
Conflict
Russia is using Ukraine to upgrade and test its weapon systems
Vigil for those who died in eastern Ukraine
Conflict
Meet a broken family in Ukraine — divided by geography and blame
A woman takes stock of the damage to an apartment block, hit by shelling in a small town near Debaltseve, Ukraine on February 2, 2015.
Conflict
Several thousand civilians are trapped on Ukraine’s latest battlefield
A pro-Russian separatist stands guard during the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic leadership and local parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Global Politics
Eastern Ukrainian rebels up the ante with a disputed election
Burnt-out vehicles in an area that was recently shelled in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The ceasefire has been marred by shelling and shooting.
Global Politics
Kiev reaches out to eastern Ukraine, but rebels there are skeptical of the offer
Soldiers from the Ukrainian self-defence battalion "Azov" sit at a checkpoint in the southern coastal town of Mariupol on September 8, 2014.
Conflict
Live from the frontlines of Ukraine, it’s an army officer on Twitter
NATO leaders meeting at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales, on Friday.
Global Politics
NATO sets up a ‘rapid reaction force’ to counter Russian aggression
Cyberwarfare is increasingly prevalent in modern conflicts, and is getting "more complex and more dangerous," says NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Conflict
NATO takes aim at Russia’s attacks — online
Protesters attend a rally in support of Ukraine, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 29, 2014.
Conflict
Ukraine seeks NATO membership as Russia moves troops across the border
According to Bellingcat, information in the James Foley execution video helped geolocate that the video was filmed Raqqa, an Islamic State stronghold in north-central Syria.
Media
This hobbyist-turned-journalist is a one-man digital detective agency
Atop the spire of a building in Moscow, a man takes a "selfie" as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint to resemble the yellow-and-blue national colors of Ukraine.
Global Politics
32 stories above Moscow, an unusual protest unfurls
A Russian convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine stops along a road in the city of Voronezh August 12, 2014. The convoy carrying tons of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Ru
Conflict
Few in Ukraine are buying that Russia is sending a ‘humanitarian’ convoy to their country
A film still of physicist Alexander Vilenkin from the set of "Dau". He was flown to Kharkov for a week to play the role of a scientist in the movie.
Arts
This movie about a Soviet scientist may be the grandest experiment in film history, if it ever gets finished
Conflict & Justice
Rebels have shot down Ukrainian military jets. And they proudly admit it
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a televised statement at early Monday. He said the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in east Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash
Global Politics
Russians react to the Malaysia airplane tragedy with denials, conspiracy theories — and tears
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a televised statement at early Monday. He said the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in east Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash
Global Politics
Russians react to the Malaysia airplane tragedy with denials, conspiracy theories — and tears
Global Politics
Dutch voices demand their government get tough with Russia over the downed Malaysia Airlines flight
Global Politics
Dutch voices demand their government get tough with Russia over the downed Malaysia Airlines flight
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Global Politics
Ukraine and Russia each produce accusations, and evidence, over who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17
A Ukrainian soldier stands near a destroyed military vehicle of pro-Russian separatists just outside the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, July 7, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Conflict & Justice
Ukraine’s military is making a comeback against pro-Russian separatists in the east
Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
Ukrainians will head to the polls this weekend, but will those in the east bother to vote?
Arts, Culture & Media
A reporter remembers Odessa as a place of humor, not violence
Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
How will Russia respond to Ukraine’s military show of force?
Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
How will Russia respond to Ukraine’s military show of force?
Members of a pro-Ukrainian militia in training.
Conflict & Justice
Pro-Ukraine militias are forming to counter the pro-Russia separatists
Masked pro-Russian activists haul down the Ukrainian flag from the top of another government building in eastern Ukraine, Monday.
Conflict & Justice
Kharkiv’s mayor is shot in another sign of Ukraine’s rising tension
Masked pro-Russian activists haul down the Ukrainian flag from the top of another government building in eastern Ukraine, Monday.
Conflict & Justice
Kharkiv’s mayor is shot in another sign of Ukraine’s rising tension
Conflict & Justice
In eastern Ukraine, you don’t want to be caught speaking English these days
Conflict & Justice
In eastern Ukraine, you don’t want to be caught speaking English these days
Russian troops on the move Friday, on the outskirts of the city of Belgorod, just a few miles from the border with Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
Here are three of Russia’s military options in Ukraine, complete with maps
Russian troops on the move Friday, on the outskirts of the city of Belgorod, just a few miles from the border with Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
Here are three of Russia’s military options in Ukraine, complete with maps
Donetsk
Global Politics
In eastern Ukraine, protesters are unsure of how far they can go — but they’re not giving up
Global Politics
Why are the troubles in Ukraine unsettling to Americans?
Global Politics
Why are the troubles in Ukraine unsettling to Americans?
Donetsk
Global Politics
Donetsk could be the confrontation that pushes Ukraine into war with Russia
Global Politics
As tension rises in eastern Ukraine, Russian nationalism rises in Moscow
A masked armed man, representing Ukrainian special forces, stands guard outside the regional administration building in Kharkiv, April 8, 2014.
Global Politics
The Ukrainian government has taken back control in one eastern city
A masked armed man, representing Ukrainian special forces, stands guard outside the regional administration building in Kharkiv, April 8, 2014.
Global Politics
The Ukrainian government has taken back control in one eastern city
Pro-Russian activists scuffle with police near the regional government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Protesters hung up a Russian flag in defiance of Kiev's pro-European government.
Global Politics
Three more Ukrainian cities are vulnerable to a Russian takeover
Statue of Vladimir Lenin in front of the Transnistrian parliament building in the break-away region’s capital, Tiraspol.
Global Politics
Where’s Transnistria? And why do people there hope Russia will annex them next?
Global Politics
Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine may be the next flashpoint in the Russia-Ukraine standoff
Donetsk
Global Politics
Could other parts of eastern Ukraine follow Crimea’s path to Russia?
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011.  Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011.  Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Documentary film ‘The Other Chelsea’ depicts Ukraine’s poor, corrupt side
World War II ‘Night Witch’ Dies at 91