Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads the notorious Wagner army, sought to attack the BBC two months before the Ukraine invasion

More than 8m Ukrainians are living elsewhere in Europe. What’s happening to them – and their host countries?

Salary cuts will have a negative impact on their morale, preparedness and medical treatment, say soldiers

Ukraine has banned Pro-Russia political party Opposition Platform, but its MPs still play a decisive role in Parliament

Human rights conditions in the Russian-backed separatist enclave have been deteriorating since the invasion of Ukraine

Equality Now is calling on Eurasian countries to amend sexual violence laws towards consent-based definitions

Women’s rights movements in the region have faced challenges ranging from war to the rise of anti-gender activism

Hear Igor Burdyga and Kateryna Semchuk explain what it's like working in a homeland under threat. Plus British...

Conversations about aiding displaced people have resumed after 45 were killed in a Russian attack on an apartment block

For an insight into the years preceding Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, watch these five films

Serhiy Dovhiy faces up to 12 years in prison after removing a Banksy artwork from a wall in a town near Kyiv

Critics fear a new planning law will hand power to property developers and put Ukraine’s historic buildings at risk

The Ukraine government is preparing to ban the country’s largest Orthodox church over its Moscow links

Our Kyiv correspondent reflects on a year covering Russia’s war against Ukraine – and her own role in the fight

Russian independent media outlets are making a painful transition from Kremlin censorship to life in exile

The author returns to his home town, to discover how locals are coping now the Russians have gone

Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform

Russia’s war against Ukraine and long-running border conflicts raise doubts about regional institutions – and how...

Are there prospects for peace in Ukraine amid Russian missile attacks and a winter battlefield stalemate?

Spanning history, politics and society, five books offer a comprehensive look at Ukraine’s past – and its future