Ukraine crisis

Members of the Ukrainian community in Taiwan, alongside Taiwanese supporters, gather outside Moscow’s representative office in Taipei to protest the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Seeing Washington change course on Ukraine, Taiwan ponders its own fate

6:01am March 03, 2025

Developments in the Ukraine-U.S. relationship have regularly made headline news in Taiwan lately. Many in Taiwan compare Ukraine's fate to its own, as China continues to threaten an invasion.

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UK Prime Minister Meets With President Trump In Washington

Trump's commitment to Europe and Ukraine are a top focus in talks with British leader

3:12pm February 27, 2025

While meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said he backed a key provision of the NATO alliance that requires members to come to the defense of another if attacked.

5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening

5:00am February 25, 2025

As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with increasing alarm.

Rubio is in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and Ukraine war

8:26am February 17, 2025

After meetings in Israel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia to push President Trump's plan for Gaza and to meet with Russian counterparts on steps to ending the war in Ukraine.

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Trump wants a quick end to the Ukraine war. That's a tall order

5:00am January 16, 2025

The war has reached a critical point. A real peace seems unlikely, but a ceasefire is possible, most experts agree. The question is whether it can be achieved without placing Ukraine in further peril.

U.S. says North Korea has sent troops to Russia for training

1:11am October 24, 2024

The deployment raises the potential for the North Koreans to join Russian forces in Ukraine and suggests expanded military ties between the two nations as Moscow seeks weapons and troops.

Ukraine's foreign minister submits resignation as Russian strikes kill 7 in Lviv

5:13am September 04, 2024

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba's resignation offer comes days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned about an imminent Cabinet reshuffle.

Pedestrians cross a street in front of a billboard displaying the letter "Z" in the colors of the ribbon of St. George and a slogan: "We don't give up on our people," in support of the Russian armed forces, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 7.

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The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary

3:07pm March 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.

Russian forces returned fire in the direction of the Ukrainian defenders, striking a power line leading to the plant.

Video analysis reveals Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near disaster

11:58am March 11, 2022

An NPR analysis of security footage and photos following the attack on Europe's largest nuclear power plant shows that many of the plant's critical safety systems were in the field of Russian fire.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) hosts Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on Sept. 13, 2021. The U.S. says Russia is recruiting Syrian fighters to help with its war effort in Ukraine.

Russia is trying to recruit Syrians to fight in Ukraine, U.S. says

5:01pm March 07, 2022

by Greg Myre

The reported Russian effort to find Syrians with urban combat experience is the latest indication that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not going as planned.