Ukraine crisis

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.

Smoke rises from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Thursday.

In Ukraine, the road to war was paved by the failure of diplomacy

1:53pm February 24, 2022

by Scott Neuman

The invasion of Ukraine occurred despite weeks of diplomatic efforts, including calls between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin and European leaders' visits to Putin in Moscow.

Denis Pushilin, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, an area controlled by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, speaks to journalists on May 5, 2021.

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U.S. says a separatist call to flee east Ukraine for Russia is a false flag

6:34pm February 18, 2022

by Alex Leff

A Russian-backed separatist leader in eastern Ukraine announced an evacuation to Russia, alleging the Ukrainian military was preparing to invade the area. The U.S. says it's "disinformation."

The acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Kristina Kvien, speaks to media in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. The U.S. has relocated the embassy from the capital Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, citing the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine's borders. An estima

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Despite the threat of war, some Americans in Ukraine are staying put

5:11am February 18, 2022

by Greg Myre

The U.S. government is telling Americans it's "past time" to leave Ukraine. But James Berk, an optician from New Jersey, has a Ukrainian wife and a newborn baby. For now, they're staying put.