Izyum resident Inga describes how, under Russian occupation, there was no news of the outside world. That is, until she strung copper to her headphones and mobile phone and managed to access an RFE/RL radio station. "It gave us hope," she says.
From the time the rockets began to hit until his flight from the city, a man from Mariupol describes the progression of the Russian onslaught on the Donbas port, which has been one of the places that has been hardest-hit in the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Surrounded by hostile forces and under constant bombardment, the eastern town of Volnovakha has felt the full force of Russia's war on Ukraine. Some 700 kilometers to the west, residents of the Black Sea port city of Odesa prepare for the worst.
WASHINGTON With more than 150,000 Russian soldiers and sailors now surrounding Ukraine on three sides, and Belarusian and Russian forces carrying out large-scale military maneuvers less than 100 miles from Ukraine’s capital, the danger of full-scale war remains high. RFE/RL offers.
WASHINGTON As Russian military forces and equipment continue to flood into Russian and Belarusian territories adjacent to those countries’ borders with Ukraine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus services and Current Time digital network are reporting the.