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The co-owner of Ukraine's largest commercial port on the Black Sea has called for the United Nations to take the lead on reopening Black Sea ports to export grain.

An elderly couple in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa have taken in 30 people displaced from their homes in the conflict zones in the eastern part of the country.

A former coordinator for imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is using Telegram to collect and publish information about schools and teachers he says compel children to participate in demonstrations in support of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Viorica Voda says she has been haunted for years by sexual harassment and other demons after her onscreen role as a teenage vixen. When she recently shocked one of Romania's biggest award nights with her allegations, most of her colleagues didn't seem to care.

Dozens of couples have been arrested in Turkmenistan for holding hands in public, with police accusing them of breaching traditional norms. The arrests come as Ashgabat tightens control over the lives of women. 

Denys Fedotov and his pregnant wife, Viktoria Kuznetsova, made the harrowing journey from besieged Mariupol to Finland, encountering processing centers and interrogations along the way.

George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, explains Kyiv’s fighting strategy in eastern Ukraine and why conscription won’t solve Russia’s manpower problems.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

Russia has reportedly lost more than 650 tanks and about 3,000 other armored vehicles and heavy equipment so far in its invasion of Ukraine.

Amid repeated hints from the Kremlin that nuclear war is again possible in Europe, a secret atomic bomb shelter in Bosnia-Herzegovina is seeing a surge in interest from tourists.