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Oleg Repnoy stands in front of his Evacuation 200 vehicle. "My job is to accompany these heroes on their last trip home," he says.

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These Ukrainian volunteers recover soldiers' remains to return them to their families

Evacuation 200 is a special volunteer unit that scours the country for the bodies of soldiers left on battlefields. "My job is to accompany these heroes on their last trip home," one volunteer says.

August 07, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Ukrainian soldiers led NPR's team into the forest in the "gray zone" where they dug one of the defensive trenches used to stall Russia's advance.

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  • World

In the 'gray zone' outside Kherson, Ukraine's soldiers pay a terrible price

Ukrainian officials have vowed to retake the strategic city of Kherson. But the battlefield "gray zone," spanning more than 100 miles, is confusing — and danger can come in many forms.

August 06, 2022
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  • Brian Mann
Brittney Griner holds a picture of her Russian basketball team as she stands inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki, outside Moscow, on Thursday.

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  • Europe

A Russian court sentences WNBA star Brittney Griner to 9 years on drug charges

The ruling came nearly six months after Griner was detained. Russia has indicated that any potential deal or prisoner swap to secure her release would have to wait until after a verdict in her case.

August 04, 2022
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  • Charles Maynes,
  • Bill Chappell,
  • and 1 more
Inside the workshop and showroom of Giovanna Alessandro, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's wedding dress industry is alive and well, despite the war

The town of Chernivtsi, once the wedding dress capital of the Soviet Union, is still churning out dresses — for the West. "We are staying in Ukraine," says a dressmaker. "We will build our economy."

August 03, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
As Ukraine mounts its first major offensive against Russia, 29-year-old Col. Serhiy Shatalov leads a battalion of 600 men in some of the heaviest fighting. "This is war," he says. "You cannot predict nothing, absolutely nothing."

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  • World

A young officer hopes to turn the tide of war, as Ukraine fights to retake a key city

A 29-year-old battalion commander is leading 600 men, fighting in Ukraine's counteroffensive near Kherson. "This is war," Col. Serhiy Shatalov says. "You cannot predict nothing, absolutely nothing."

August 03, 2022
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  • Brian Mann
A grain combine harvester collects wheat near Novoazovsk outside Mariupol, Ukraine.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Aug. 1)

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

August 01, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A member of a Ukrainian military surveillance team gets ready to launch a drone from a wheat field in southern Ukraine.

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  • Europe

In the Russia-Ukraine war, drones are one of the most powerful weapons

Even relatively inexpensive drones can provide valuable intelligence to units on the battlefield. "This is our task," a Ukrainian drone surveillance unit member says. "We sit the whole day and watch."

July 30, 2022
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  • Jason Beaubien
In this photo taken from video, a view of a destroyed barrack at a prison in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine on Friday.

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  • Europe

Russia and Ukraine trade blame for a deadly attack on a POW prison

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian POWs captured after the fall of Mariupol.

July 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is shown in custody in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2008. Bout was later extradited to the U.S. and convicted of conspiring to kill Americans. He's serving a 25-year sentence, but he may be part of a prisoner swap the U.S. and Russia are trying to negotiate.

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  • World

Who is Viktor Bout, the prisoner the U.S. may trade for Brittany Griner?

Bout is a Russian who was the world's most notorious arms dealer in the 1990s and early 2000s. He's serving a 25-year prison sentence in Illinois, but could be freed as part of a U.S.-Russia swap.

July 28, 2022
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  • Greg Myre
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, on Wednesday.

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  • World

U.S. offers Russia a deal for the release of Brittney Griner

The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.

July 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A guard removes Brittney Griner's handcuffs ahead of a hearing at the Khimki Court outside Moscow on Wednesday.

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  • World

Brittney Griner testifies about her medical marijuana prescription and chaotic arrest

The WNBA star took the stand in Russian court Wednesday to explain why she had vape cartridges in the first place, how they ended up in her luggage and what happened after they were discovered.

July 27, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Charles Maynes
U.S. Space Shuttle Commander Terrence Wilcutt (right) and Mir Commander Anatoly Solovyev hug after opening the hatches between the space shuttle Endeavour and the Russian Space station Mir Saturday, Jan. 24, 1998, in this image from television

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Russia says it will quit the International Space Station after 2024

NASA and other international partners hope to keep the space station running until 2030. Meanwhile, Russia says it will focus on building its own orbiting outpost.

July 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People try to console a woman named Sabina after her husband Artem Pogorelets was killed by Russian shelling in a market in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (July 25)

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

July 25, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
FILE - In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto following their talks in Moscow, Russia, on July 21, 2022.

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  • World

Russia's Lavrov visits Egypt as part of Africa diplomacy trip

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Cairo for talks Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.

July 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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Russia strikes Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa in wake of grain export deal

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's strike as "spit in the face" of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the grain export agreements.

July 23, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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