Ukraine: Media
Videos
Hear about the April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station and the catastrophe caused due to the escaping radiation
Overview of the Chernobyl disaster.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Yurii Zushchyk/stock.adobe.com
What do eggs have to do with Easter?
How did a Christian holiday get scrambled up with colored eggs?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
How did Volodymyr Zelensky become president of Ukraine?
Actor. Comedian. Wartime leader. Who is Volodymyr Zelensky?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Images
Swallow's Nest Castle
Swallow's Nest Castle overlooking the Black Sea, Yalta, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine.
© Mike_kiev/Dreamstime.com
Crimean Peninsula cliffs
Cliffs on the Crimean Peninsula overlooking the Black Sea.
Philippe Michel/age fotostock
Livadiya Palace, Yalta
Gardens and facade of the Livadiya Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine.
John Massey Stewart
Chernobyl disaster
Scientists trawling the Pryp'yat River, near Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
© Petr Pavlicek/IAEA
Chernobyl disaster
The town of Pryp'yat, Ukraine, which was evacuated after the Chernobyl accident in...
©Alessandro Lucca/Dreamstime.com
Ukraine
Garden plots of small farms near Turka, in the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine.
© Stephen Chelminski
Chernobyl disaster
Map of the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Pryp'yat, Ukraine
The town of Pryp'yat, Ukraine, in 2005. The town was evacuated after the Chernobyl...
© Petr Pavlicek/IAEA
Ukraine football team at the World Cup, 2013
Members of Ukraine's national football (soccer) team listening to the Ukrainian national...
© katatonia82/Shutterstock.com
Oksana Baiul
Figure skater Oksana Baiul competing at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer,...
Simon Bruty/Getty Images
Holodomor
A young child, showing obvious signs of starvation, during the Holodomor, Kharkiv,...
Diocesan Archive of Vienna (Diözesanarchiv Wien)/BA Innitzer
Holodomor
Dead child on the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the Holodomor, photo by Alexander...
Diocesan Archive of Vienna (Diözesanarchiv Wien)/BA Innitzer
Holodomor
Empty village in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, photo by Alexander Wienerberger, 1933....
Diocesan Archive of Vienna (Diözesanarchiv Wien)/BA Innitzer
Holodomor
Mass graves filled with victims of the Holodomor, Kharkiv, Ukraine, photo by Alexander...
Diocesan Archive of Vienna (Diözesanarchiv Wien)/BA Innitzer
Babi Yar
A memorial ceremony being held near the commemorative sculpture at the Babi Yar site...
© Babi Yar Society/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
Ukraine crisis: Sevastopol
Unidentified soldiers accompanied by Russian military vehicles patrolling Sevastopol,...
© Vasiliy Batanov—AFP/Getty Images
Igor Strelkov
Pro-Russian separatist leader Igor Girkin (byname Igor Strelkov) holding a media...
© Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Malaysia Airlines flight 17
Emergency workers examining the charred debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines...
Vadim Ghirda/AP/Shutterstock.com
Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, and Petro Poroshenko
Belarusian Pres. Alexander Lukashenko (center) hosting a meeting between Russian...
© Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images
Ukraine crisis
World leaders meeting in Minsk, Belarus, to discuss the terms of a cease-fire in...
© Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images
Volodymyr Zelensky during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky speaking at a press conference. Zelensky has used...
The Presidential Office of the Ukraine (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Russia-Ukraine War
Ukrainian troops responding to a Russian rocket attack on a shopping mall in Kyiv,...
© Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images
Russia-Ukraine War
Ukrainian war refugees arriving at a train station in Germany, March 2, 2022.
Hannibal Hanschke/Getty Images News
Russia-Ukraine War
People, mainly women and children, making their way through a railway station in...
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images News
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