Intelligence reports warned of Russian provocations along the routes, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine and Russia have regularly agreed to establish corridors from some of the hardest-hit cities.
Russia's war in Ukraine has prompted an exodus from Russia, including many Americans living there. Some had built a life stretching over decades. Now they don't know if they'll ever go back.
The displacement of the millions of lives in Ukraine, a month into Russian invasion, is evident in images of sliced-open apartment buildings, dogs in arms and children's belongings left behind.
President Biden is visiting Poland, next door to Ukraine. He gave a speech to U.S. troops stationed there to raise morale and also met with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
The war over Ukraine's future is being fought on the ground, in the air — and through social media posts and viral videos that take advantage of America's deeply polarized politics.
The Donbas region, the site of two breakaway republics created by Russia-backed separatists in 2014, has become the site of some of the heaviest fighting in recent days, a senior U.S. official says.
Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst onto the set of a live broadcast holding a sign reading "No War," could be fined between 30,000 and 50,000 rubles when her case is heard on April 14.
International groups say Russian soldiers are threatening, detaining and even torturing Ukrainian journalists in occupied areas. One news editor says troops are holding her 75-year-old father hostage.
Thousands of Russians have left their country since their government began its invasion of Ukraine. Many have settled in Georgia, a country with a complicated history with its neighbor to the north.
The Drama Theater had become a place of refuge, with hundreds of people gathered inside and in the bomb shelter below. City officials accused Russia of inhuman cruelty.
Time reporter Simon Shuster recently returned from the Ukrainian-Polish border. Watching as U.S. planes brought in loads of weapons, he felt like he was standing on the brink of something massive.
Ukrainian soldiers at the Black Sea outpost made headlines at the start of the war by profanely defying threats from a Russian warship. Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 10 prisoners on Thursday.
