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Yuri Malashko manages a region 67% controlled by Moscow where some 800 families still live on the front line

The Thor unit, which is involved in one of the most intense battles of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, is attacking Russian positions around the village of Mala Tomachka

The NGO Mission Kharkiv, born in the shadow of the Russian invasion, has delivered more than 180 tons of medicine and treated more than 60,000 patients

The southern region, 80% of which is controlled by Moscow, is the strategic point where Kyiv is trying to break the corridor which connects the Crimean peninsula with the Donbas for Russians

EL PAÍS traveled along the country’s eastern border, from Kharkiv to Kherson, to portray the daily life of soldiers and civilians 15 months after the war began

Authorities in Kherson and other cities liberated by Ukrainian troops now face the problem of detecting informers loyal to Moscow

Ahead of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, concerns are growing over the safety of the nuclear power plant in Energodar, which was captured by Moscow at the beginning of the invasion. ‘If this explodes, only a shadow of us will remain’

Over a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, girls like Diana and Yuliana are still unable to return to normality, confined to their home in the front line city of Kostiantynivka

Artillery and infantry units in the eastern Donbas region spend hours and hours awaiting orders and monitoring the movements of Russian troops. ‘Every day here is the same,’ says a sentry. ‘There are no Mondays, no Tuesdays, no Sundays, no holidays’

The road that connects Izium with Sloviansk offers a bleak panorama of towns and villages that were on the front lines of the Ukraine war and are now completely devastated

Deceptive tranquility in Kharkiv contrasts sharply with Kupiansk and other war-ravaged towns on the front lines

Special correspondents from EL PAÍS traveled along the 750 miles of front lines in the country, collecting testimonies from civilians and soldiers. The people residing in these embattled areas are hopeful about the ongoing counteroffensive, which could decide their destiny

Gennadiy joined the Territorial Defense Forces after the Russian invasion and has been in some of the most brutal battles of the war. His signature was on the flag Volodymyr Zelenskiy presented to the U.S. Congress

Only 300 of the 150,000 forcibly expatriated minors have been reunited with their families during Moscow’s ‘de-Ukrainization’ campaign

Local troops in Dvorichna withstand the pressure of the invaders, but demand the necessary weapons to push them back

Residents have been ordered to evacuate as Kremlin forces attempt to retake the strategic city but many have chosen to stay: ‘We are unbreakable’

A volunteer who fought in Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive last year returned home for the birth of his son before rejoining the fight in Donetsk Oblast

The deputy PM and minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories has denounced Russian attacks on the evacuation of residents from Bakhmut. She believes that Ukraine must continue fighting, assuring EL PAÍS that the country doesn’t lack soldiers – only weapons and ammunition

The occupied city’s de jure leader puts the civilian death toll from the siege at 22,000 and says they were not prepared for the scale of the assault: ‘We did not know the Russians were advancing towards us’

The testimony of a neighbor led to the bodies and personal belongings of three men who died in Borodianka and that he himself buried before fleeing the war

A mayor, a doctor, the mother of a dead policeman, a health worker and a priest recall the days when the town of Irpin became the wall that stopped the Kremlin’s troops from entering the capital of Ukraine

The US president made an unannounced trip to Kyiv to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a gesture of solidarity days before the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion

More than half of the children in the country have been displaced by the conflict with Russia. This photo essay highlights how the war has disrupted students’ education

A Ukrainian soldier – protecting a power station that supplies Kyiv – used the limited means at his disposal to shoot down one of the Kremlin’s devastating projectiles

The Kremlin has flatly refused any discussion of a truce after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Moscow to withdraw its troops at a G7 conference

Representatives of the invaded country on Wednesday accepted the European Parliament’s highest honorary award in the name of citizens ‘who are not just fighting a war of independence but fighting a war of values’

Air defense systems around the capital shot down over a dozen Shahed unmanned vehicles as Western allies pledged €1 billion in aid to patch up Ukraine’s power grid