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News Articles: Series: Russia Ukraine recap

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday. Heavy fighting is raging at the besieged steel plant as Russian forces attempt to finish off the city's last-ditch defenders and complete the capture of the strategically vital port.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 5)

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

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The PCK oil refinery, which is majority-owned by Russian energy company Rosneft and processes oil coming from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline, in Schwedt, Germany.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 4)

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

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Dark smoke rises following an airstrike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on Tuesday. Russia said its artillery hit hundreds of targets across the country in the past day.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 3)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Hryhorii, a member of the Ukrainian military, hugs his wife Oksana, whom he had not seen for nearly a year, after she fled from the Russian-occupied Novomykhailivka village and arrived by car at an evacuation point for people fleeing Mariupol, Melitopol and the surrounding towns under Russian control, on Monday, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 2)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, third from left, talk during their meeting in Kyiv on Saturday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 1)

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

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  • NPR Staff
A girl looks as a woman crying during a religious service to commemorate the fallen during the Russian occupation in Zdvyzhivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Saturday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 30)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Rescue servicemen extinguish a bush fire after shelling in Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Friday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 29)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Firefighters try to put out a fire following an explosion in Kyiv on Thursday, the same day of a visit by the head of the United Nations.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 28)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks to media at the gas station of Gaz-System in Rembelszczyzna, near Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday. Polish and Bulgarian leaders accused Moscow of using natural gas to blackmail their countries after Russia's state-controlled energy company stopped supplying the two European nations Wednesday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 27)

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

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  • NPR Staff
U.N. Secretary-General António <a href="https://www.npr.org/live-updates/ukraine-russia-moldova-putin-04-26-2022#u-n-chief-urges-russias-foreign-minister-to-call-a-ceasefire-and-end-the-suffering"></a>Guterres (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shake hands during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 26)

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

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  • NPR Staff
A resident looks at shards of twisted metal from a Russian rocket in undergrowth near a train line near Lviv, Ukraine, on Monday. The head of Ukrainian Railways said five rail facilities had been attacked by Russia Monday morning, including a substation supplying power to overhead lines, in Krasne, near Lviv.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 25)

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

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People pray during an Orthodox Easter church service at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral on Sunday in Kyiv.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 24)

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

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People leave a residential area after Russian shelling struck the Ukrainian city of Odesa on Saturday. At least six people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 23)

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

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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)

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

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  • NPR Staff
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)

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

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  • NPR Staff