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The bulk carrier M/V Razoni leaves Ukraine's port of Odesa on Monday.

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The first Ukrainian grain ship leaves Odesa after months of Russian blockade

11:44am August 01, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

The milestone comes after the U.N. and Turkey signed agreements with Russia and Ukraine to resume exports. The U.N. had pushed for a deal to address a growing global food shortage.

People try to console a woman named Sabina after her husband Artem Pogorelets was killed by Russian shelling in a market in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (July 25)

12:20pm July 25, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Members of the Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra pose onstage after winning the Eurovision Song Contest on May 14 in Turin, Italy. The winning country typically hosts the next year's competition, but Russia's war in Ukraine has disrupted that tradition.

It's official: The U.K. will host next year's Eurovision contest on behalf of Ukraine

11:48am July 25, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Officials approached the U.K., this year's runner-up, after concluding that Russia's war makes Ukraine unfit to hold the competition. This isn't the first time the U.K. has stepped in to host.

Smoke rises in the air after shelling in Odesa, Ukraine.

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How prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

10:52am July 21, 2022

Eli Rosenbaum spent his career hunting down Nazis after World War II. Now, he will use those skills to seek out war criminals in the Russia-Ukraine war.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends a meeting in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday. She spoke to Morning Edition about some of the initiatives she's been promoting on her trip overseas.

Yellen believes U.S. will get on board with global minimum corporate tax — eventually

11:59am July 19, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke to Morning Edition about global efforts to choke off much of Russia's profit from oil sales and the odds of a recession in the U.S.

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Ukrainian servicemen lay flowers at the site of a Russian shelling in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Friday. Russian missiles struck the city on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (July 18)

6:54pm July 18, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Inna Kravchenko, 52, and her mother, Raïsa Kozlova, 75, moments after crossing by bike from Russian-occupied territory in the Kherson region to the Ukrainian-controlled village of Zelenodolsk. They were able to bring three bags of belongings but fear the

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Ukrainian villagers flee Russian-occupied Kherson on foot, bike and wheelchair

8:04am July 17, 2022

Ukraine lost territory to Russia in the southern Kherson region early in the war. Residents fleeing rural villages there describe their desperation under Russian military control.

The Russian Black Sea naval headquarters at Sevastopol, Crimea, in 2008. In the background on the right is a Russian destroyer. The Russian tall ship Padalla (with white sails) is in the center. In the foreground is the Monument to Scuttled Ships, marking

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How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

8:32am July 13, 2022

by Greg Myre

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

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Workers clean up wreckage at the Amstor Mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, after the building was hit by a Russian cruise missile.

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Russian missiles are blasting civilians in Ukraine

9:50am July 12, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

A Russian missile struck a crowded shopping mall last month, killing 21 people and injuring dozens more. It was just one of many instances when Russia hit Ukraine's civilian areas.

Iryna Shulimova, 59, weeps at the scene in the aftermath of a Russian rocket that hit an apartment building in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday. At least 30 people were killed and others may still be trapped in the rubble.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (July 11)

1:08pm July 11, 2022

by NPR Staff

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