Roman Pahulych covers defense and security for Donbas.Realities of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. He has worked for RFE/RL since 2018 after stints as a reporter for Ukrainian news Channel 24 -- both in Ukraine and abroad.
RFE/RL reporter Roman Pahulych surveyed the destruction along the highway near the village of Mala Rohan just east of Kharkiv on March 31.
Devastating Russian military attacks on civilian residential areas northwest of the Ukrainian capital are driving more people to make the difficult journey to Kyiv. On March 9, evacuees spoke of living in their basements until they decided to flee.
Amid persistent shelling, thick black smoke was seen rising from a local power station, which caught fire on February 22, leaving over 40,000 residents of the town of Shchastya without electricity for the second time in recent days amid intensive shelling.
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region have weaponized consumer drones to drop grenades on Ukrainian government trenches.
