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2 U.S. Cabinet officials will meet with Zelenskyy in Kyiv

6:03pm April 23, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday. The State Department declined to comment to NPR.

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A firefighter sits on a swing next to a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday.

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Ukraine says Russian forces try to storm Mariupol steel plant

12:52pm April 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant along with the civilians sheltering in the facility's underground tunnels.

A Ukrainian national flag is seen through a window of a destroyed apartment, on Thursday in Borodianka, Ukraine.

Opinion: The failed promise of 'never again'

9:28am April 23, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of a 91-year-old woman who surived the Holocaust, but could not survive Russia's weeks-long assault on Mariupol.

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Joseph Feny is living in a one-bedroom apartment with friends Anet Pchelnikova and Natasha Madichanska, and Madichanska's twin daughters Yulia (left) and Alesandra, 10. They all fled Kyiv for Bulgaria earlier this month.

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Orthodox Easter will be very different this year for thousands of Ukrainian refugees

5:00am April 23, 2022

by Meghan Collins Sullivan

This weekend would normally be a celebratory one for Ukrainians. But Easter Sunday marks two months since the latest Russian invasion. More than 40,000 refugees have found themselves in Bulgaria.

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Capt. Daniil, a public affairs officer in the Ukrainian military, walks through a field in Mala Rohan, on the outskirts of Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv. He is recording the aftermath of fighting between occupying Russian soldiers and Ukrainian f

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Photos: Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine

6:31pm April 22, 2022

Last month, Ukrainian forces pushed the Russians out of the village of Mala Rohan. NPR goes inside the warehouse Russia had used as temporary barracks.

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People walk near a destroyed tank and damaged buildings in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 22)

4:58pm April 22, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

March 19, 2022: an overview of a cemetery and the early expansion of graves.

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Another possible mass grave with as many as 9,000 bodies is found near Mariupol

9:35am April 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The apparent mass grave seen in satellite images covers a space larger than three football fields. The imagery shows rows of graves stretching away from an existing cemetery in Manhush, near Mariupol.

People fleeing the Ukrainian city of Mariupol arrive at a registration center for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on Thursday. They traveled in a small convoy that crossed through territory held by Russian forces, after the opening of a humani

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 21)

4:53pm April 21, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Refugees from Ukraine wait for a bus in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on April 8 after having crossed the Ukraine-Poland border.

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Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

3:10pm April 21, 2022

by Joanna Kakissis

Spooked by reports that traffickers are waiting at the Ukraine-Poland border, a Polish woman started an all-women car service to drive Ukrainian refugee women and children to homes or shelters.

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'Navalny' documentary spotlights the Russian who dared to take on Putin

9:41am April 21, 2022

by John Powers

Daniel Roher's film about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery — and human cost — of opposing a despot.