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
An investigation has confirmed the deaths of 441 civilians in three regions occupied by Russian forces early in the invasion, but investigators believe there are many more
Russian shelling wiped out much of the livestock on a large farm in the Kharkiv region early in the invasion. Kyiv’s agriculture sector has suffered losses of $40 billion due to the war
Russian attacks on the country’s power grid have left six million people without electricity. With a ‘life-threatening’ winter fast approaching, many are concerned about how they will get through the bleak cold months
The resolution was overwhelmingly approved as Ukrainian authorities began evacuating the most vulnerable citizens from Kherson, where critical infrastructure has been damaged by retreating Russian forces
Over two million people need humanitarian aid in a country where poverty has skyrocketed and staple items are 35% more expensive than a year ago
According to President Zelenskiy, more than 10 million of his citizens are living without electricity after the most recent wave of Russian bombardments
A Kyiv priest who is expecting his 10th child and has taken in 34 refugees is now focused on improving conditions for the military during winter with homemade heating and cooking devices