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Valentyna Sherba, 68, stands next to a Russian tank in the backyard of her father's home, both destroyed, in the aftermath of a battle between Russian and Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022.

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Ukrainian steel plant bombed; Zelenskyy to meet US officials

4:58am April 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Russian forces called in airstrikes on a besieged steel factory in the southern city of Mariupol, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet in Kyiv with two top American officials.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced plans to meet on Sunday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

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2 U.S. Cabinet officials will meet with Zelenskyy in Kyiv

6:03pm April 23, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday. The State Department declined to comment to NPR.

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The growing demand for clean energy sources could mean a resurgence in mining

5:56pm April 23, 2022

by Willem Marx

Materials like lithium are used in batteries for things like electric vehicles. For Cornwall, England, that's already led to a small mining boom.

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People leave a residential area after Russian shelling struck the Ukrainian city of Odesa on Saturday. At least six people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 23)

4:59pm April 23, 2022

by NPR Staff

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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EU trade official calls the economic impact of defending Ukraine a price worth paying

4:52pm April 23, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis about the economic impact of Russia's ongoing assault on Ukraine.

A firefighter sits on a swing next to a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday.

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Ukraine says Russian forces try to storm Mariupol steel plant

12:52pm April 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant along with the civilians sheltering in the facility's underground tunnels.

A Ukrainian national flag is seen through a window of a destroyed apartment, on Thursday in Borodianka, Ukraine.

Opinion: The failed promise of 'never again'

9:28am April 23, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of a 91-year-old woman who surived the Holocaust, but could not survive Russia's weeks-long assault on Mariupol.

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Residents of a Ukrainian city prepare for a seige

9:28am April 23, 2022

As Russia renews its offensive on southern and eastern Ukraine, the city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, are preparing for a siege.

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Joseph Feny is living in a one-bedroom apartment with friends Anet Pchelnikova and Natasha Madichanska, and Madichanska's twin daughters Yulia (left) and Alesandra, 10. They all fled Kyiv for Bulgaria earlier this month.

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Orthodox Easter will be very different this year for thousands of Ukrainian refugees

5:00am April 23, 2022

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

This weekend would normally be a celebratory one for Ukrainians. But Easter Sunday marks two months since the latest Russian invasion. More than 40,000 refugees have found themselves in Bulgaria.

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Capt. Daniil, a public affairs officer in the Ukrainian military, walks through a field in Mala Rohan, on the outskirts of Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv. He is recording the aftermath of fighting between occupying Russian soldiers and Ukrainian f

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Photos: Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine

6:31pm April 22, 2022

Last month, Ukrainian forces pushed the Russians out of the village of Mala Rohan. NPR goes inside the warehouse Russia had used as temporary barracks.

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