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The village of Borodyanka, 50 kilometers from Kyiv, was severely damaged by Russian air strikes. According to Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova, the worst situation with civilian casualties is in Borodyanka.

Alona Zahreba made a video diary of life in the besieged Ukrainian port, showing how they gathered snow when water was cut off and smoke rising from nearby explosions. She spoke to Current Time about what life was like in Mariupol, and how she and her family escaped.

Ukrainians in Chernihiv are cleaning up the devastation wrought on their city by the Russian Army after Moscow stopped its attacks and turned its attention to Ukraine's east. Russia's air force bombed residential areas and a church. RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir toured the destruction in the city.

People questioned across Russia have expressed mixed reactions to allegations that Russian forces committed war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Speaking to Current Time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russian people have no access to the facts about the invasion of Ukraine, calling the war a distraction from urgent global problems including COVID-19 and economic recovery. Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russi...

Roman and Leonid Butusin were born in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East, but both died fighting for the Ukrainian Army against Russian invaders. At their funeral, people knelt on the street in a mark of respect. "They were real Ukrainians," said one mourner.

A children's summer camp in Ukraine is the site of another grisly atrocity. In a basement, there were bodies with their hands tied behind their backs and bullet holes in their heads. The Ukrainian authorities said it was a war crime committed by Russian forces.

People in Severodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, have been under Russian bombardment since February 24. Volunteers trying to help people evacuate find many unsure about whether it's safer to leave the city or stay there.

Russian troops allegedly shot a 72-year-old professor when he tried to defend his home and protect neighbors in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin.

It's called the Sweet Home neighborhood -- but its streets are now burned out, the windows in the buildings are shattered. Current Time reporter Roman Sukhan visited the area during a tour of Irpin, near Kyiv, which has now been liberated from Russian forces.

A great deal has been written about high-tech, high-precision weapons in Ukraine's battle against Russia's invasion. But Grad rocket systems, a technology many decades old, are also playing a role in the fight. Both the Russian and the Ukrainian militaries have this system in their arsenals.

Dressed in their bride-and-groom finery, a Kharkiv couple who have volunteered as medics since the start of the war were married on April 3 in the northern Ukraine city, the scene of heavy bombing until recently.

Images of dozens of bodies lying in the streets of the village of Bucha, near Kyiv, have been seen around the world, prompting accusations of war crimes against Russian forces. RFE/RL correspondent Levko Stek traveled there on April 3 shortly after its liberation by Ukrainian forces.

Thirty years ago, their city was surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces and kept under siege for nearly four years. Now, Bosnians tell RFE/RL's Balkan Service that they see the same evil repeating itself in Ukraine and want Europe and the world to do more to put a stop to it.

Solomia Fedishin is drying her husband's freshly laundered Ukrainian Army uniform. The 19-year-old is trying to cope after his death in a Russian air strike. She needs to be strong, she says, for the son that she will soon give birth to -- and bring up as a widow.

His mother died as their car hit a mine planted by Russian forces. Andriy survived with serious injuries an told his story to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on March 29 at the hospital in the western city of Lviv where he is recovering.

Ukrainian forces recaptured the town of Trostyanets in eastern Ukraine, located just 40 kilometers from the border with Russia.

In Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian military shows off armor and equipment that was left behind by invading Russian troops after a battle. Some will be reused by the Ukraine's armed forces, while other pieces will be left where they are.

Ukrainian forces have liberated the Russian-occupied village of Kukhari in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region. But Russian forces have continued to bombard the village with artillery and aircraft. RFE/RL correspondent Levko Stek was on the ground during one of the attacks.

From a forest near the village of Kukhari in the RFE/RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir talked to some of the soldiers on March 30 about how they ended up in the conflict.

RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Maryan Kushnir spoke with Ukrainian soldiers in the Kyiv region on March 31. They told him about their situation on the front line and also described details of a battle that took place the day before.

Ukrainian troops have pushed back Russian invaders in several directions near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city. RFE/RL correspondent Roman Pahulych visited Saltivka, one of the city's most badly damaged districts.

Valentyn seems to have been the last resident of Teterivske, a village west of Kyiv, who stayed in his old wooden house as Russian shells hit his deserted neighborhood. On March 31, Ukrainian soldiers persuaded the elderly, frail, and frightened man to let them take him to safety.

Hostomel airport, which lies north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, lies in ruins with dozens of destroyed Russian military vehicles littering the tarmac. It was the site of ferocious fighting and changed hands several times as Ukrainian troops battled to retake the airfield from Russian forces.

RFE/RL reporter Roman Pahulych surveyed the destruction along the highway near the village of Mala Rohan just east of Kharkiv on March 31.