The Kyiv Independent's investigative documentary, "He Came Back," which exposes sexual violence committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, has won the 2025 Ukrainian journalism award, "Honor of the Profession." The winners were announced during an award ceremony in Kyiv on May 29. The documentary, which identifies perpetrators of sexual violence in occupied Ukrainian territories, was […]

Russia’s missile and drone barrage against Kyiv on Friday killed at least seven people , Ukrainian officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said three emergency workers who went to a bomb site were “killed in a repeat Russian strike”. Two died in an attack on the northern city of Chernihiv and at two more […]