I recently visited Bukovel and Dragobrat, two ski resorts in the Carpathian Mountains. Here’s what I saw → Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the country’s western Carpathians have ...

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.

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.

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.

Environmentalists say illegal logging in the Carpathian Mountains is contributing to flooding. Rising waters forced the partial evacuation of a hospital treating Covid-19 patients.