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News Articles: Series: The Ukraine invasion, explained

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Ukraine's Zelenskyy confirms that an offensive against Russia is underway

Despite mounting evidence, Ukrainian leaders had previously declined to say whether the offensive had been launched. The Ukrainian forces are now attacking the Russians in three separate areas.

June 10, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Myre
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir. Water levels in the reservoir have been falling rapidly after a critical dam collapsed.

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  • Science

A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant used a large reservoir for cooling water. Now that reservoir is rapidly draining.

June 10, 2023
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
The remains of the Kakhovka Dam as seen by satellite on June 7, 2023. Seismologists claim to have seen an explosive signal around the time of the dam's collapse.

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  • Europe

Seismic stations detected explosion at Ukrainian dam around the time it collapsed

A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.

June 09, 2023
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
The Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine suffered a catastrophic breach overnight, in what Ukrainian officials say was an attack by Russia.

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  • Europe

What we know about a large dam's catastrophic breach in Ukraine

The near obliteration of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River has triggered evacuations and raised concern about Europe's largest nuclear power plant, which uses the reservoir to cool its reactors.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A strike on a medical facility in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday left two dead and over 23 injured.

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  • World

Two dead, 23 wounded in a Russian strike on a Ukrainian medical clinic

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksyy called the attack on a Dnipro medical clinic a "crime against humanity." Video of the scene showed smoke pouring out of a badly damaged building.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the graduating class of Johns Hopkins University via livestream from Ukraine on Thursday in Baltimore.

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  • Education

Ukraine's Zelenskyy surprises Johns Hopkins grads as their commencement speaker

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's virtual appearance at the commencement ceremony was a surprise for those in attendance. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listens to military commanders as he visits the eastern Donetsk region, an area of heavy fighting, on Tuesday. Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials say a major military offensive is likely to start soon.

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  • Europe

What are realistic expectations for Ukraine's military offensive?

Most major military operations are shrouded in secrecy. Ukraine's planned offensive against Russia has been under public debate for months. This has created expectations. Some realistic, some not.

May 25, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Workers load grain at a port in Izmail, Ukraine, on April 26. A United Nations-backed deal has been extended allowing shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger.

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  • World

The Ukraine grain deal is extended 2 months, helping ease the global food crisis

An agreement allowing Ukrainian grain to ship through the Black Sea has been extended for two months just a day before its expiration — overcoming Russia's threats to pull out of the deal.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Charles Maynes and
  • Joanna Kakissis
Ukraine's Tvorchi performs "Heart of Steel" on stage during the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Liverpool, England. They finished in sixth place, behind Sweden, Finland, Israel, Italy and Norway.

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  • Europe

Russia attacked the hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision band just before its performance

Ukrainian band Tvorchi competed in the Eurovision grand final in Liverpool on Saturday, minutes after Russian missiles struck their hometown of Ternopil. Two people were injured in the attack.

May 15, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
People standing near a Ukrainian national flag watch as dark smoke billows following an air strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on March 26, 2022.

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  • World

A former U.S. Army general predicts 'successful' Ukrainian offensive

Ex-U.S. Army Europe commanding Gen. Ben Hodges predicts success for Ukraine's long-awaited counterattack against Russia

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Julie Depenbrock
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on Tuesday.

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  • Europe

Putin assails West for unleashing 'real war' against Russia, as it marks Victory Day

Russia's Victory Day ceremony was scaled back this year, amid the war in Ukraine.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Father George Kovalenko gives a eulogy at Christopher James Campbell's funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 5, 2023.

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  • Europe

Ukraine buries a 'brave son' from America

Christopher Campbell is one of at least nine Americans known to have died fighting for Ukraine since Russia's invasion began in February 2022.

May 06, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Hayda
Patriot missile launchers acquired from the U.S. are seen deployed in Warsaw, Poland, in February.

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  • Europe

Ukraine says its newly fielded U.S. Patriot system downed a Russian hypersonic missile

The Russian Kinzhal was intercepted during an air strike over Kyiv earlier this week, a Ukrainian official said. It is the first known time the sophisticated Russian missile has been shot down.

May 06, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Following a Russian attack, first responders remove rubble at a residential building in Uman, central Ukraine on Friday.

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  • Europe

Missile and drone strikes across Ukraine claim more than 20 lives

An apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Uman has been hit after a series of airstrikes across the country on Friday. The attack is the deadliest strike on a Ukrainian apartment since January.

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Hayda,
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • and 1 more
The destroyed section of the Antonivka bridge over the Dnipro river is seen on Nov 18, 2022, in Kherson, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian journalist's death leads to investigation and criticism

Bogdan Bitik was shot while on the Antonivka bridge in Kherson. He was working with an Italian journalist who was also shot but survived. Ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation.

April 27, 2023
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  • Julian Hayda
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