American households decked their porches with the Ukrainian flag after their neighbor was spotted hanging a Russian flag in front of their door for over a month.

A monastery in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa has become a heaven for around 80 stray cats seeking protection. Nuns and volunteers help end the suffering of the cats by feeding cleaning and caring them at the monastery. They are also trying to find them loving homes.

Lithuanian Olympic gold medalist Rūta Meilutytė, 25, swam across a pond she had dyed blood red with ecological paint in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.