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How Russia is weaponizing the Ukrainian winter

6:00am November 20, 2022

Ukraine says Russia is using the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians, by targeting the country's ability to heat and power homes. Repair crews are struggling to restore power to damaged areas.

Choreographer Polina Mitryashina, artist Victor Melamed, and jazz producer Evgenii Petrushanskiy, from left, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 2. All three are Russian artists who have recently fled Russia to live in Israel.

Russia's biggest talents flee to Israel, seeking freedom from Putin's repression

6:01am November 19, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

Russia is losing creative talent. Some of its biggest artists have immigrated to Israel this year to rebuild their careers and safely voice their conscience about the war in Ukraine.

A burned cot in a police station in Kherson on Wednesday. Kherson residents say Russians used the police station to detain and torture violators of curfew and people suspected of collaborating with Ukrainian authorities.

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Screams from Russia's alleged torture basements still haunt Ukraine's Kherson

11:49am November 18, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

These are just some of the chilling accounts from Ukrainians in Kherson after 8 1/2 months under Russian occupation.

U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony in August for drug smuggling, is seen on a screen via a video link from a remand prison during a court hearing to consider an appeal against her sentence, at the Moscow regional court on Oct. 25.

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Russia sends Brittney Griner to a penal colony

6:01pm November 17, 2022

by Charles Maynes

The U.S. basketball star was transferred to a prison colony in Mordovia — 300 miles southeast of Moscow — to begin serving out a nine-year sentence on drug charges.

Asl Tia, a cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain, sails on Bosporus to Marmara sea, in Istanbul, on Nov. 2.

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Russia and Ukraine renew a grain export deal to help the hungry and keep prices down

10:02am November 17, 2022

by Fatma Tanis

The U.N.-brokered deal to ship Ukrainian grain exports was set to expire on Saturday and will now continue for at least another 120 days.

Members of the Polish police inspect the fields near the village of Przewodow, Poland, where an explosion killed two people Tuesday.

Poland says missile strike on its land appears to be an accident by Ukraine

2:05pm November 16, 2022

by Greg Myre

Two Polish citizens were killed when the missile struck in the eastern part of Poland, just a few miles from the border with Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda calls it an "unfortunate accident."

The commander of a Territorial Defense Unit fighting in Kherson region, who goes by the name Playboy, poses for a portrait last month.

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With winter approaching, Ukraine prepares to fight on frozen ground

10:52am November 16, 2022

The coming winter may provide Ukraine with more opportunities to retake land from Russia, Western military analysts say. It will also bring a change in battlefield tactics.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Sixth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 13.

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Turkey is friendly with both Russia and Ukraine. Now it wants them to talk peace

5:00am November 16, 2022

by Fatma Tanis

Turkey, a NATO ally, has positioned itself as a neutral player in the Ukraine war — as being pro-Ukrainian without being anti-Russian.

Firefighters work to put out a fire in a residential building hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on Tuesday.

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Biden says it's 'unlikely' that missile that hit Poland was fired from Russia

10:35pm November 15, 2022

by Greg Myre

President Biden and other G-7 leaders gathered in Bali for an emergency meeting to discuss the explosions in Poland. "We're going to find out exactly what happened," he said.

Hanna Malyar, Ukraine's deputy defense minister (center), signs a Ukrainian flag belonging to a local resident in Kherson on Monday. "Ukraine's success depends on two points," Malyar told NPR. "First our strength, our ability to fight. And second, the weapons that we receive from our partners," referring to the United States and other Western nations.

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Ukrainians dance in Kherson's streets at the end of Russia's months-long occupation

1:09pm November 15, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

Since Russian troops withdrew and Ukrainian forces moved in, residents are meeting up in the city's main square to celebrate, waving their flag, singing and dancing.

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