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Service members of the 126th Separate Territorial Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine take part in military exercises in the Odesa region on Wednesday.

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

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

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By:
  • NPR Staff
Demonstrators protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Independence Square in front of the Parliament Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 24, 2022. Lithuania's parliament has since declared Russia a perpetrator of terrorism and genocide.

Lithuania designates Russia as a terrorist country, a global first

The resolution, which passed unanimously, comes a day after Lithuania's foreign minister publicly urged a regime change in Russia.

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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A man holding a child wipes his eye as the Kurdish family from Dohuk in Iraq waits for the border guard patrol, near Narewka, Poland, near the Polish-Belarusian border on Nov. 9. The three-generation family of 16 — with seven minors, including the youngest who is 5 months old — spent about 20 days in the forest and was pushed back to Belarus eight times.

Here's what it's like for migrants trapped between Belarus and Poland

Thousands of migrants are camped along the border of Belarus and Poland, trapped between the countries. EU officials accuse Belarus of luring them across the border.

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By:
  • Rob Schmitz and
  • Marco Storel
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the exiled leader of Belarus' pro-democracy movement seen photographed in September in Vilnius, Lithuania, is calling for a revival of mass protests in her country against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

From Exile, Tikhanovskaya Calls For '2nd Wave Of Protests' Against Belarus Regime

The exiled leader of Belarus' pro-democracy movement says that renewed protests and diplomatic pressure will lead to a peaceful political transition and new, free and fair elections.

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By:
  • Lucian Kim