Russia unleashes massive strikes on Ukraine in the run-up to the New Year
A photo report
Eighteen people were killed and 132 were injured in Russia’s overnight missile strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipro.
My enemy’s enemy
How Ukrainians and Russia’s ethnic minority groups are making common cause in opposing Russian imperialism
Cold case
The Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who froze to death at home in Kyiv amid power cuts in the depths of winter
Cold war
Kyiv residents are enduring days without power as Russian attacks and freezing winter temperatures put their lives at risk
Scraping the barrel
The Kremlin is facing a massive budget deficit due to the low cost of Russian crude oil
Beyond the Urals
How the authorities in Chelyabinsk are floundering as the war in Ukraine draws ever closer
Family feud
Could Anna Stepanova’s anti-war activism see her property in Russia be confiscated and handed to her pro-Putin cousin?
Cries for help
How a Kazakh psychologist inadvertently launched a new social model built on women supporting women
Deliverance
How one Ukrainian soldier is finally free after spending six-and-a-half years as a Russian prisoner of war
Watch your steppe
Five new films worth searching out from Russia’s regions and republics
