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A man looks out from a window of a residential building that was damaged after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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As Ukraine pursues counteroffensive, Russia strikes Kharkiv
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Mon,09/12/22-11:46AM , 337 Reads
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Among the boarded-up windows and blast-scarred buildings of Ukraine’s second-largest city, where Russian missiles and rockets strike during the day and the night, fear forms the backdrop of life.
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Mariia Ruban, 92, is helped by a neighbor as she stand at garden of her house that damaged its roof and windows after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. "I have lived through everything, even starvation. But I have never seen anything like this, like what happened today," says Ruban, supporting herself on a rough wooden cane as she stood in her garden. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Nighttime rocket strikes spread fear in east Ukrainian city
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Sat,09/10/22-1:26AM , 497 Reads
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — It's at night that residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk are most afraid, when rocket and artillery attacks happen more frequently. Shells and rockets slam into gardens and apartment buildings, sending chunks of masonry and shards of glass hurtling through the darkness.
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Roman Zhylenkov, left, and another volunteer of Vostok SOS charitable organisation carry an elderly woman from her home during an evacuation in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Volunteer drivers are risking everything to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukrainians behind the front lines of the war — and to help many of them escape. The routes are dangerous and long and the drivers risk detention, injury or death. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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Ukraine: Drivers risk all to bring aid, help civilians flee
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Fri,06/10/22-1:42AM , 338 Reads
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian artillery pummeled the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in April, one family decided to flee, walking for miles with three young children in tow to a nearby village. But it was thanks to a volunteer driver who crossed the front line that they managed to eventually make it out of Russian-held territory.
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A man carries water in front of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. In towns and cities near the fighting in eastern Ukraine, artillery and missile strikes have downed power lines and punched through water pipes, leaving many without electricity or water as repair crews race to repair the damage. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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In eastern Ukraine, keeping the lights on is a dangerous job
By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press
Sat,06/04/22-1:20AM , 542 Reads
BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities — and the utility crews sent to repair the smashed transmission lines and pipes are finding themselves in the middle of the shelling.
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