Claire Harbage

Halyna Zahorodnikh, 71, stands in her kitchen that, like much of her apartment, has sustained damage from nearby shelling. Plastic sheets now hang where the windows were. She is one of millions of Ukrainians facing a winter that's essentially being weaponized against them.

How Russia is weaponizing the Ukrainian winter

Nathan Rott

Ukraine says Russia is using the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians, by targeting the country's ability to heat and power homes. Repair crews are struggling to restore power to damaged areas.

Anna Mordiukova gave birth to her baby Victoria with a Russian doctor while her village was under occupation at the beginning of the war.

Meet the parents raising Ukraine's next generation, babies now as old as the war

Elissa Nadworny

In the first two months of the war in Ukraine, 15,000 babies were born. Their parents are raising the next generation of Ukrainians — children now as old as the war.

Yurii Skubin, 65, shows pieces of spent ammunition collected in a vacant lot in Tavriiske, a village just a few miles from Russian-occupied areas in Zaporizhizhia. The annexation, largely dismissed by the international community as a sham, will likely have real implications for Ukrainians on the front lines who are staring down Russian forces.

On the edge of Russia's illegal annexation, Ukrainians grapple with uncertainty

Kat Lonsdorf

Villagers on the Ukrainian side say it's already hard to stay in touch with friends and family across the front lines. They fear it will get worse.

Wooden crosses mark burials at a mass grave site in newly liberated Izium, Ukraine. Some of the graves have a name and date written in thick black marker, others have simply a number scrawled across — unidentified.

Outside a liberated Ukrainian town, inspectors search for evidence of war crimes

Kat Lonsdorf

On the outskirts of the recently liberated town of Izium, investigators have found what Ukrainian officials are calling a mass grave. It is now being inspected for possible evidence of war crimes.

Larisa, 76, lives alone in her apartment in Sloviansk, Ukraine. She hasn't been outside since before the war.

For older Ukrainians in front-line cities, visits from social workers bring comfort

Elissa Nadworny

In Sloviansk, many of those who remain are over 60. Social workers help with food, medicine and cleaning. An 86-year-old calls her social worker "Firefly," saying, "She brings light in a dark time."

Seven months after blowing up a dam in Demydiv, Ukraine, to stop Russian forces from advancing on the capital, the area remains flooded and attempts to remove the water continue.

Ukraine flooded a village to save Kyiv. Residents are racing to clean up before winter

Elissa Nadworny

To stop Russian forces from advancing to Kyiv, the Ukrainian military blew up a dam, flooding a nearby village. Seven months later, residents are still pumping water out of yards and houses.

Viktor Radushinskiy, a member of Ukraine's forestry department in Zhytomyr, looks at a site in the northern Ukrainian woods where a fighter jet crashed.

Shredded trees, dead dolphins and wildfires — how Russia's invasion is hurting nature

Nathan Rott

The environmental impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be felt far longer than the war itself.

The port of Izmail on the Danube River, on Ukraine's far southern border with Romania, is one of the few Ukrainian-run ports still operating in the country.

The once-quiet southwestern corner of Ukraine is now playing a key role in trade

Nathan Rott

As the Russian invasion blocks much of Ukraine's food exports elsewhere, ports in the far south are the few Ukrainian-run transit points for goods in and out of the country.

Pavlo Rebenko, a Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor, enters the rubble around a house to look at a human skeleton in Moshchun, Ukraine.

Ukrainians' discovery of a dead Russian soldier left for weeks stirs anguish and anger

Joanna Kakissis

A Russian soldier's forgotten body is discovered in a liberated village north of Kyiv, setting off a range of emotions and an inquest — as Russia refuses to acknowledge many of its war dead.

Services at Church of St. George on Sunday in Lviv, Ukraine.

Some of Ukraine's Orthodox churches want to break away from their Russian patriarch

Lauren Frayer

At church, Ukrainians pray for an end to war. But a rift is forming: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Moscow's invasion. Some in Ukraine want to break away from his leadership.