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Three months of war: Russia underachieves, Ukraine overachieves

12:46pm May 24, 2022

by Greg Myre

When Ukraine was invaded, many expected a quick Russian victory. The war is 3 months old, with both sides digging in for a battle that could potentially be a long, drawn-out stalemate.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy receives a standing ovation after his video address on the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 23)

4:57pm May 23, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

A sign on a Moscow Starbucks informs visitors that the coffee chain had suspended its work in Russia.

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Starbucks is exiting Russia, shutting 130 stores

11:10am May 23, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The coffee chain joins McDonald's in taking its brand out of the country. Starbucks had temporarily paused operations in March.

The International Space Station depends on a mix of U.S. and Russian parts. "I hope we can hold it together as long as we can," says former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

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Russia's war in Ukraine is threatening an outpost of cooperation in space

5:10am May 23, 2022

For decades, U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have lived side-by-side aboard the International Space Station. Now some are wondering whether that partnership can withstand the war in Ukraine.

In this still taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on May 20, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier leaving the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.

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Fate of 2,500 Ukrainian POWs from steel plant stirs concern

2:36pm May 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate.

A view of the business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 27. Russia has halted natural gas exports to neighboring Finland.

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Russia has cut off its natural gas exports to Finland in a symbolic move

12:58pm May 21, 2022

by The Associated Press

The move came just days after the Nordic country announced it wanted to join NATO and marked a likely end to Finland's nearly 50 years of importing natural gas from Russia.

Russian soldiers left graffiti in the school in Borodyanka, a town outside of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

How a Ukrainian teacher helped students escape Russia's invasion, and still graduate

7:57am May 21, 2022

by Anya Kamenetz

As residents return to a liberated town near Kyiv, a teacher and her high school students recount what it took to survive the war.

Raise Grigorievna Dreama's daughters Malina (left) and Ramina (center) and her granddaughter Monica (right) sit in their room at a temporary Chisinau housing center for refugees, mostly hosting people from the Roma community and other minority groups from

Roma refugees who fled from Ukraine to Moldova are now in limbo

7:02am May 21, 2022

by Betsy Joles

Many slipped across the border as the war began, but lack passports or other official forms of ID. They struggle to prove their eligibility for humanitarian aid — and to cross into other countries.

Russian-backed Donetsk militia fighters man "Gvozdika" (Carnation) self-propelled artillery vehicles to fire toward a Ukrainian army position outside Donetsk, in territory held by the separatist Donetsk government in eastern Ukraine, Friday. Fighting has

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 20)

4:54pm May 20, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

President Biden, Finland's President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 19)

4:58pm May 19, 2022

by NPR Staff

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