In August, the Defense Forces of Ukraine continued the offensive operation on the Oleksandrivka front. Frontliner breaks down what is happening on these fronts and how Ukraine’s offensive in the south impacts the broader picture.
For more than four years, director Oleh Tokar has split his life between two realities: his work at the theater and nighttime hunts for Russian drones. Frontliner journalists joined the volunteers on duty to see how they defend Kyiv's airspace.
This wood will become a musical instrument that will sound almost exactly as it would have one or two hundred years ago. Frontliner reporters visited his workshop to see how this ancient sound is born.
The Prostir Turboty (Care Space) officially began operating at the Odesa Regional Clinical Hospital. Frontliner reporters went to see how the new space works.
With one swift stroke of a sharp tool through the colored engobe on wet clay, Rustem Skybin draws a clear line. Frontliner visited the potter's workshop to see his signature technique.
Oleksii Yukov was killed on Aug. 5, 2026, when his car struck a mine in Lyman hromada, Donetsk region. He was 40. For more than 25 years, Yukov searched for the dead, first traveling to the battlefields of past wars.
In Kyiv, Dmytro Kruk from the Donetsk region participates in a rally supporting captured Azov fighters. Yet only recently, he was being frightened with stories about them at the Russian border as he escaped from temporarily occupied Khrestivka.
The wartime summer 2026 has brought its usual heat to the resort town of Chornomorsk, warming the sand and the people who lie on it. See how war has reshaped a resort town in a new Frontliner report.
June brought an increase in the intensity of fighting, but no increase in territorial gain for the Russian army.
Before the horseback riding session begins, the veterans gather near the arena fence. Here is what happened next, as reported by Frontliner.
