
Ukraine’s empty classrooms
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

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

The Russian Defense Ministry says withdrawal from key port city is ‘in strict accordance with the approved plan’ while NATO heralds ‘another victory for Ukraine’

Residents of Irpin – a Ukrainian city only 17 miles west from the capital Kyiv – are winter-proofing bomb shelters as temperatures drop

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Ukrainian president says that negotiation with Moscow is only possible if Putin withdraws all his forces and admits the invasion was a mistake

The latest attacks left 350,000 apartments in the capital without power and 80% of the city’s population with no access to water

Three civilians were killed and a dozen wounded in a missile attack against residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said. Moscow is claiming control of the city’s nuclear plant

At least 25 people are dead and around 50 wounded after a missile attack killed civilians in Zaporizhia earlier on Friday
Thousands of families have fled occupied areas amid Moscow’s annexation plans and mandatory enlistment of Ukrainians to fight their own country

Lieutenant Ilia Samoilenko served at Mariupol with the Azov Regiment and was taken prisoner after the city’s fall, but has now been released.

EL PAÍS joined investigators as they exhumed bodies from a wooded area of the town. Many of the victims were shot, while others were found with rope tied around their necks

First exhumations show victims were killed by gunshot, artillery fire and mines. President Zelenskiy said there were children and families among the dead

To restore infrastructure damaged by the Russian invasion, experts from Ukrainian Railways have entered the newly-liberated territory

Ukrainian forces have retaken dozens of towns and villages near the border and caused Russian troops to retreat
The Taliban, who financed their insurgency with opium trafficking, now face the problem of more than three million drug addicts in Afghanistan

The US-led war on international terrorism has failed to break the historic pact between Bin Laden and Mullah Omar

The Taliban accuse the US of breaking the Doha agreement by killing the leader of Al Qaeda, while Washington suggests it is Afghanistan that violated the deal by sheltering terrorists