Austin Malloy

Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old Ukrainian woman, spoke about surviving the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians. Each November, Ukraine remembers victims of the man-made famine that occurred when Soviet authorities seized food to force peasants to join collective farms.

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service was given exclusive access to film one of Ukraine's long-range drone units as it prepared to strike a target in Russia. The soldiers say Ukraine's domestically built drones can strike up to 2,000 kilometers inside Russia.

Massive protests continued in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on December 5, triggered by the ruling party's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union until 2028.

After a week of protests following the Georgian government's decision to suspend EU accession talks through 2028, demonstrators told RFE/RL's Austin Malloy that they're exhausted but determined to continue.

Pro-European demonstrators shot fireworks at Georgia's parliament building during ongoing protests over the prime minister's decision to end accession talks with the European Union. Georgian police are continuing a crackdown on pro-European demonstrators that has included beatings and hundreds of arrests.

Journalists in Georgia have been violently attacked while covering mass protests after the ruling party announced a delay in membership talks with the European Union. The attacks have been blamed on "titushky," a word with origins in Ukraine's 2013 protests, meaning mercenaries hired by the authorities to beat and harass opponents.

Georgian protester Anamaria Tavartkiladze has volunteered to decorate the country's main Christmas tree in Tbilisi with images of people beaten amid ongoing mass demonstrations. The recent college graduate said she's hanging the posters as a way to "protest the authoritarian regime in Georgia."

A showdown is looming over Georgia's presidency as the December 29 inauguration day nears for far-right politician Mikheil Kavelashvili. Current president, Salome Zurabishvili, has called the appointment "illegitimate," and says she'll refuse to leave office after Kavelashvili is sworn in.

Speaking with RFE/RL from a military shelter in eastern Ukraine, a female drone pilot with the call sign "Siri" discusses her experience of losing her Ukrainian comrades on the front line.

A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, to Russia has crashed near the city of Aqtau in western Kazakhstan with 67 people on board, Kazakh authorities said on December 25. Officials said dozens were killed in the incident, but added that several others had survived.