Colorized images made by NASA satellites capable of capturing the light of human activity by night show swathes of Ukrainian territory in the country's east and south have fallen dark amid depopulation and wartime power outages.
Small numbers of high-end German-designed SUVs are being assembled at a plant in Kaliningrad despite BMW pulling out of Russia days after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Unauthorized balconies built by residents of the Kyrgyz capital to expand their apartments are being demolished amid government efforts to clean up the image of the city.
Since 2023, Moscow has built up an extensive range of fortifications around the Crimea Bridge linking the occupied Ukrainian Peninsula with mainland Russia. Russian authorities have also reportedly mulled replacing the span with an undersea tunnel.
Recent photos from a key Russian logistics route highlight the growing impact of Ukraine's efforts to stifle Russian logistics.
An art initiative is reminding the world of the political prisoners held in Belarus through traditional cross-stitch embroidery.
