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Ukranians in Sumy are still living under attacks from Russia

4:42pm February 15, 2024

by Joanna Kakissis

NATO is promising a delivery of a million drones to Ukraine, even as future U.S. support seems uncertain. Ukrainians in Sumy, a region in northeastern Ukraine, live under Russian shelling and deadly mortar attacks.

Vice President Harris, seen here in December 2023, will be making a major address on Friday at the Munich Security Conference.

Trump is rattling Europe. Now Harris is going there to try to calm nervous allies

5:01am February 15, 2024

by Asma Khalid

Vice President Harris is making a major address on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. But European leaders are alarmed at the U.S. failure to keep its promise to continue to back Ukraine.

Yulya Dmytrieeva and her husband, Vadym, who have been together for over a decade, embrace in the snow in Sloviansk. They will spend a few days together while he has a break from the trenches on the front lines.

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Ukrainian soldiers' valentines arrive by 'train of love'

12:04pm February 14, 2024

Ukrainian soldiers on a break from the front lines meet up with their wives and girlfriends, who arrive on the so-called "train of love," where every day is Valentine's Day.

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President Biden pauses in remarks in the State Dining Room on Feb. 6. Biden urged Congress to pass a Senate compromise bill with funding for the border, Ukraine and other national security priorities.

Biden tells Republicans to 'show some spine,' buck Trump, and back border bill

5:34pm February 06, 2024

by Asma Khalid

President Biden said it seems like the bill with funding for the border, Ukraine and other national security issues will fail. He vowed to make that failure an election issue.

Olha Bilianska's husband was mobilized two years ago. Even after being injured, he is being redeployed. "Some people still believe that this war won't get them," Bilianska says. "It will get them. This war is cruel."

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As Ukraine seeks to replenish its depleted army, a divide grows among its civilians

5:01am January 31, 2024

Ukraine is looking to reform its conscription policies to help bolster troop numbers after nearly two years of war, fueling fears among some civilians who don't want to fight.

People react at the site of a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.

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Russian missiles target Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, killing at least 6

4:57am January 23, 2024

by The Associated Press

Russian missiles targeted Ukraine's two biggest cities on Tuesday morning, damaging apartment buildings and killing at least six people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and others in Congress to ask for more aid for his country's war against Russia.

Zelenskyy is making a last-ditch push to get more U.S. weapons and aid for Ukraine

7:37pm December 12, 2023

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden has asked Congress for billions more in help for Ukraine in its fight against Russia. But Republicans have made it contingent on major changes in U.S. border policy.

In the middle of Poland's Bialowieza Forest, one of Europe's oldest remaining forests, stands Europe's newest border wall: a 15-foot-high metal fence topped with razor wire and security cameras. Poland finished building this fence a year ago to try to stem an influx of migrants assisted to the border by Belarusian soldiers, whose government is trying to destabilize Europe.

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Poland's dangerous eastern border takes center stage in upcoming elections

5:26pm October 02, 2023

by Rob Schmitz

The NATO and EU member borders Belarus, the Russian territory of Kaliningrad and Ukraine — plus a strip of land connecting it to Lithuania. It is an unstable and volatile mix of frontiers.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn't mince words when he talked about the threat of Russia's war.

As the U.S. mulls more aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says 'we have the same values'

2:58pm September 20, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. He spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about why U.S. aid to Ukraine remains so important.

This will be President Biden's first meeting with King Charles since his coronation. The two men have met before, including at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 2, 2021.

Biden is meeting King Charles before heading to a NATO leaders summit in Lithuania

10:35am July 09, 2023

by Asma Khalid

President Biden is in Europe this week. He'll first talk climate change with King Charles. Then he's meeting NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania to talk about the war in Ukraine.

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