Ukrainians have flocked to resorts nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, largely spared the worst of the war, for a respite. One soldier recuperating there explored what it means to heal.

Peach the cat peers from the jacket of its owner, 28 year-old Vladislav Duda from Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains, northern Romania, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 after they were rescued from a deep ...

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western ...

Tourists ski near the Chornohora mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains, in western Ukraine on Feb. 21, 2021, one year before the Russian invasion.

In this image provided by Salvamont Maramures, a Romanian mountain rescue service, Peach the cat peers from the jacket of its owner, 28 year-old Vladislav Duda from Ukraine, in the Carpathian ...

That’s how I found myself in January heading to the Carpathian Mountains, an area just about as far away as a person can get from the front line of the east while still remaining in the country.

Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and plenty of bears.

VELIATYNO, Ukraine — Soon after Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Ukraine beefed up its border defenses near this Carpathian mountain village. But the extra patrols and reels of barbed wire ...

The Carpathian Mountains are a wildly popular domestic getaway spot for Ukrainians in the summer. But Russia's invasion has deeply affected the tourism industry there this year.

The Carpathian Mountains reside in the western part of the country. “I know a lot of us are thinking about the people of Ukraine right now,” said Renton History Museum Director Elizabeth Stewart.

The Carpathian Mountains are a horseshoe-shaped range that arcs from central to southeastern Europe. From their western edge in Austria and the Czech Republic, the Carpathians rise clockwise ...