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Putin turns down Biden talks and defends Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid

12:04pm December 02, 2022

by Charles Maynes

The Kremlin dismissed the idea of talks with President Biden to end the war in Ukraine and said its assault on Ukrainian infrastructure was an "inevitable" response to Kyiv's attacks.

Ukrainian flags fly in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 19, marking the graves of soldiers killed in action following the Russian invasion earlier this year.

A journalist's plea to the West: 'Pay attention to Ukraine and its fate'

1:36pm November 29, 2022

by Terry Gross

Invasion author Luke Harding began reporting from Ukraine in December 2021 and was in Kyiv the night before the Russian invasion began. "There is no mood inside Ukrainian society to yield," he says.

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Residents hold a remembrance ceremony during the 90th anniversary of a great famine known as the Holodomor, at a museum in Drohobych, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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Ukraine remembers a famine under Stalin, and points to parallels with Putin

6:23pm November 28, 2022

by Greg Myre

Ukraine marked 90 years since a terrible famine that killed at least 4 million of its people. The event was especially poignant this year as Ukraine deals with its present crisis.

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A woman carrying a bucket walks along the road near Bakhmut, on Nov. 27. As temperatures drop, Ukrainians worked to restore power, heat and water supplies after Russian strikes hit key infrastructure.

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Week in Ukraine: Power back on for many but more Russian strikes expected (Nov. 28)

11:22am November 28, 2022

by NPR Staff

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Cars leave Kherson, southern Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Fleeing shelling, hundreds of civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier.

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Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

5:23am November 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Civilians have streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier, after days of intensive shelling by Russian forces.

Yevhenia Podvoiska and Tatiana Kuznetsova, from left, both policewomen, steer and navigate a drone during class in Kyiv on Oct. 27. Students must learn to work in pairs: a pilot and a navigator.

Ukrainian women have started learning a crucial war skill: how to fly a drone

6:01am November 26, 2022

by Ashley Westerman

The Female Pilots of Ukraine is the first of its kind in the country at a time when the Ukrainian military has been using drones for reconnaissance and fighting against Russian forces.

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Russia hits Ukraine with new missile strikes, knocking out power and water

12:58pm November 23, 2022

The capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv were among the cities hit in the latest round of attacks aimed at the country's infrastructure.

Ukrainian infantry soldiers go through training exercises at a military camp outside Dnipro, Ukraine, on Oct. 24. Official "morale officers" watch over the soldiers, keeping them focused on the fight, addressing any problems quickly and not letting them fester inside, which can be dangerous on the battlefield.

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Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers fight mental fatigue as the war drags on

9:54am November 22, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

Commanders say Ukrainian forces' motivation and spirit are the most important weapons in the fight to protect their nation. They are turning to official "morale officers" and psychologists to help.

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Liudmyla, left, embraces her granddaughter, Ania, who arrived Saturday on the first Ukrainian Railways train to reach liberated Kherson, Ukraine. The train from Kyiv arrived to jubilation and tears.

Latest on Ukraine: Kherson revives as war rounds 9th month (Nov. 21)

10:45am November 21, 2022

by NPR Staff

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a screen set at Red Square in Moscow on Sept. 30, as he addresses a rally marking the annexation of four regions of Ukraine occupied by Russian troops: Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

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'Golden billion,' Putin's favorite conspiracy, explains his worldview and strategy

5:00am November 21, 2022

by Charles Maynes

The conspiracy theory claims global elites plot to hoard the world's wealth and resources, leaving the rest of the planet to starve — and it's gaining traction in Moscow amid the Ukraine war.