The “Train of Love” no longer runs to Donetsk
Ukrzaliznytsia trains have stopped reaching the stations in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Whether service will be restored remains unknown, and at the moment it seems unlikely.
Andriy Dubchak
Pokrovsk became the first city I witnessed being killed before my eyes
Russian occupiers have been attacking Pokrovsk for over a year – since the summer of 2024, when they launched a major offensive in this direction. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the city’s population has fallen from over 60,000 to barely a thousand (according to the latest data from the Donetsk Regional Administration).
The murder of Viktoriia Roshchyna shows: The Kremlin is losing control over its torturers
On August 8, 2025, people in Kyiv bid farewell to Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old journalist tortured to death while in Russian captivity. Her killing shocked the international community and became another stark reminder of Russia’s brutality and lawlessness.
Andriy & Inna’s Frontline Diary
Frontliner Reporter Andriy Dubchak and his colleague Inna Varenytsia have traveled to the Donetsk region to document life in frontline towns and villages. They will visit Ukrainian military positions, speak with locals, and share photos and reports from their journey. Follow their diary on the Frontliner website.
Surviving a double Tap: Rescuer Pavlo Petrov and the new norm of repeat strikes in Kyiv
During a recent mass missile-and-drone attack on Kyiv in the early hours of 6 June, a Russian kamikaze drone ignited a large fire in buildings on Vadym Hetman Street near Shuliavska metro station, a busy transit hub on the capital’s Red Line just west of the city center. As firefighters, rescuers and the DSNS press team worked the scene, a deliberate “double tap” drone strike — now a grim new norm in Kyiv — hit the same spot. With U.S. deliveries of air-defence munitions growing uncertain, such follow-on strikes threaten to become even more frequent and deadlier.
“The weapon is good, but there are no long-range shells”: how Ukraine’s Bohdana howitzer operates in the Toretsk sector
The first Ukrainian gun designed for NATO-standard 155-millimeter shells, the Bohdana self-propelled howitzer, is operating on the Toretsk sector. Its distinctive feature is the ability to strike the enemy at distances of up to 40 kilometers (25 miles).
“The Russians attacked relentlessly for 12 hours,” how Ukrainian Special Operations Forces repel assaults in the Pokrovsk front
The Russian army is steadily building up forces in the Pokrovsk sector to intensify assaults that now happen daily. The Ukrainian army is holding Pokrovsk, but the Russians are not giving up their attempts to break through the city's defenses.
Andriy & Albina’s Frontline Diary
Frontliner reporters Andriy Dubchak and Albina Karman have traveled to the Donetsk region to document life in frontline towns and villages. They will visit Ukrainian military positions, speak with locals, and share daily photos and reports from their journey. Follow their diary on the Frontliner website.
How Ukrainian recruits train to survive the drone war
Recent battlefield statistics highlight the extraordinary impact unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are having on the war in Ukraine. According to Kyiv’s military leadership, in January this year two-thirds of Russian military hardware losses were caused by attack drones. On the Ukrainian side, losses to Russian drone strikes are estimated to be running at a similar ratio.
The first photos from liberated Bucha: then and now
The streets are strewn with the bodies of killed civilians and littered with burnt iron, which Russian equipment has turned into. All around, battered houses have been destroyed. This is what Bucha looked like when the first journalists entered the city after its liberation from the occupiers on April 2, 2022. Among them was a Frontliner reporter who managed to get across the Romanivskyi Bridge.