Photoreports

The river remembers every battle. Now, Ukraine’s fighters from the 144th Special Operations Forces Center return to its waters—training to fight back the Russian invasion.

A funeral was held in Kyiv on April 28 for 17-year-old Danylo Khudia and his parents, Oleh and Viktoriia Khudia, who were killed during the deadliest missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital since the early months of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

In the dead of night, as families slept, a Russian missile tore through Kyiv’s sky—and then their homes. On April 24, 2025, Ukraine’s capital suffered its deadliest missile and drone attack since the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Russia killed at least 12 people and injured 90 more, including children and a pregnant woman.

On April 20, Christians across Ukraine and around the world—Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox—celebrated Easter together. We traveled to the front-line zone in the Zaporizhzhia direction to mark the holiday with the chaplains of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade and see what Easter looks like for soldiers and civilians in a time of war.

On the morning of April 13, 2025, at approximately 10:15 a.m., Russian forces fired two ballistic missiles at the central area of Sumy, Ukraine. The attack took place on Palm Sunday, a time when the city’s streets were crowded with civilians. Ukrainian authorities report that the strike resulted in at least 34 deaths, including two children, and left 117 people injured, among them 15 children.

Russia’s missile strike near a playground in Kryvyi Rih killed nine children. These photos show the devastating aftermath.