Amos Chapple

A massive panorama depicting a battle in the 1853-1856 Crimean War has been heavily damaged by what Russian-occupation authorities in Sevastopol say was a Ukrainian drone attack.

A blaze on June 15 amid Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine is the latest war wound inflicted on Kyiv's centuries-old Pechersk Lavra, the most iconic religious landmark in the Ukrainian capital.

On June 17, Uzbekistan will become the first ever Central Asian nation to compete in the FIFA World Cup after multiple previous attempts to reach the coveted football contest.

An art initiative is reminding the world of the political prisoners held in Belarus through traditional cross-stitch embroidery.

Unauthorized balconies built by residents of the Kyrgyz capital to expand their apartments are being demolished amid government efforts to clean up the image of the city.

Small numbers of high-end German-designed SUVs are being assembled at a plant in Kaliningrad despite BMW pulling out of Russia days after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

An escalating energy crisis is underway in Crimea as blackouts sweep the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula and local Kremlin-installed authorities set up "emergency assistance centers."

New satellite images appear to show that several strategically important sites in Russia's far north have had air defense batteries removed as the Kremlin struggles to counter Ukrainian drone attacks elsewhere in the country.

The announcement on July 14 that French Rafale fighter jets will soon be received by Kyiv represents another step away from its legacy Soviet aircraft fleet, experts say.

Ukrainian military photographer Iryna Rybakova captured the moment a Russian first person view drone blasted into a vehicle in Kramatorsk on July 15 amid a reported increase in FPV drone attacks on the city.