Victoria Roshchyna, an award-winning Ukrainian journalist who wrote first-hand accounts about life in Russian-occupied regions, died while in Russian custody, a letter received by her family confirmed this week.

Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday revealed his first step toward the country's vision for peace — or what he has labeled its "victory plan" — remaining tight-lipped about it since last month's meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which the plan was briefed.

On Monday, the Nobel Prize committee at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering microRNA and its essential role in the growth and survival of multicellular organisms.