People place Ukrainian flags in memory of civilians killed during the war at Independence Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.

Mr. Sheptunov, an information technology worker, was at the display with his wife, Olha, and daughter, Aleksandra, 10. They left Kyiv early in the war because of fighting there, but by the end of ...

Kyiv stood when it wasn’t meant to. For three years it has held the line, not just for Europe, but for all of us who still ...

In 2014, Ukrainians took to Kyiv’s main square to protest the decision by President Viktor F. Yanukovych to forgo closer ties to Europe and instead more closely align Ukraine with Moscow.

Ukraine’s pro-democracy, pro-Europe demonstrations in Maidan square a decade ago marked the “first victory” in its war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared on the anniversary ...

Independence Square, known to Ukrainians as the Maidan, was the site of mass protests in 2014. Today, the square hosts an unofficial memorial to those who have died fighting in the war against the ...

In Maidan Square, in central Kyiv, pedestrians hustle across the sprawling plaza to and from work. People line up at kiosks for coffee and hot dogs. Couples eat ice cream and shoppers mill in and ...

Fuminori Tsuchiko, a 75-year-old Japanese volunteer, ties a Ukrainian flag to a tree at the memorial site for those killed during the war, near Maidan Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday ...

Kyiv’s center, Maidan Square is at once a commercial hub and site of public funerals. Every flag stuck into the green space of one of Maidan’s corners marks a death in the war.

Thousands of flags and framed photos have been planted in a densely-packed unofficial memorial to Ukraine’s fallen war heroes in Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. A decade ago, this was the site of ...

Kyiv's Maidan or Independence Square has been the heart of Ukraine’s revolutions, and for many, it is the only place where their loved ones can truly be honoured. As the war in Ukraine enters ...