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A Ukrainian refugee speaks with a local interpreter as she and her two children arrive at the Siret border crossing between Romania and Ukraine on April 18.

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The U.N. now projects more than 8 million people will flee Ukraine as refugees

12:30pm April 26, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The number is more than double what the U.N.'s refugee agency projected in February when Russia invaded the country. The vast majority of those who have already left are women and children.

People walk in a city park around a Soviet-era monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2020.

Kyiv will dismantle a Soviet-era monument and rename streets linked to Russia

11:25am April 26, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The People's Friendship Arch was gifted to Ukraine by the Soviet government in the 1980s. Kyiv's mayor says the statue underneath is being dismantled, and the arch will be renamed and repainted.

A resident looks at shards of twisted metal from a Russian rocket in undergrowth near a train line near Lviv, Ukraine, on Monday. The head of Ukrainian Railways said five rail facilities had been attacked by Russia Monday morning, including a substation s

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 25)

4:54pm April 25, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Director Michel Hazanavicius poses for a photo in 2018.

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French zombie comedy 'Z' changes its name ahead of Cannes, at Ukrainians' urging

2:06pm April 25, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Director Michel Hazanavicius changed the name for the Cannes opener after Ukrainian protesters noted that the letter Z has come to symbolize support for Russia's war in Ukraine.

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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People walk near a destroyed tank and damaged buildings in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 22)

4:58pm April 22, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

People fleeing the Ukrainian city of Mariupol arrive at a registration center for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on Thursday. They traveled in a small convoy that crossed through territory held by Russian forces, after the opening of a humani

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 21)

4:53pm April 21, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Refugees from Ukraine wait for a bus in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on April 8 after having crossed the Ukraine-Poland border.

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Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

3:10pm April 21, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

Spooked by reports that traffickers are waiting at the Ukraine-Poland border, a Polish woman started an all-women car service to drive Ukrainian refugee women and children to homes or shelters.

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Damaged military vehicles and a Ukrainian flag are seen at the partly destroyed steel plant in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol on Monday.

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Putin orders troops not to storm Mariupol's last holdout

2:26pm April 21, 2022

The Russian president called it a victory, but Ukrainian soldiers maintain control of a sprawling steel plant. Putin said a blockade of the plant will save the lives of Russian fighters.

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