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News Articles: Series: The Ukraine invasion, explained

Not much is known about General Aleksandr Dvornikov personally, but his record leading Russia's military intervention in Syria in 2016 earned him the nickname "the butcher of Syria."

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  • Europe

What the ruthless new commander of Russia's military in Ukraine signals for the war

General Aleksandr Dvornikov is infamous for his ruthlessness while leading Russia's intervention in Syria. Now he's heading Russia's war in Ukraine, signaling that the violence could intensify.

April 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Linah Mohammad,
  • and 1 more
A police officer uses a loudspeaker to address people gathered in St. Petersburg to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.

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  • Europe

A Russian woman is jailed for replacing store price tags with anti-war messages

Artist Aleksandra Skochilenko reportedly swapped in a tag at a St. Petersburg supermarket with a note about the bombing of a Mariupol art school. Her lawyer said a shopper reported her to the police.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Pictures made by children in solidarity with Ukraine are displayed in a window at 10 Downing Street in London in March.

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  • Europe

U.K. shouldn't pair female Ukrainian refugees with lone male hosts, the U.N. says

Citing "increasing reports of Ukrainian women feeling at risk from their sponsors," the U.N.'s refugee agency is urging U.K. officials to refine the matching process for its Homes for Ukraine program.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Kateryna Kltsova, right, with her two daughters Nadia, 7, center, and Maria, 11, left, with their new pink suitcase in a park in Lviv.

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  • Europe

Young ballerinas from Kharkiv are now among millions displaced by Ukraine's war

At Christmas, they performed The Nutcracker. As Easter approaches, they and their mom are among millions who've been scattered by violence, separated from their old lives, facing an uncertain future.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Brian Mann
The luxury superyacht Dilbar sails off the coast of Monaco in 2017.

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  • Europe

Germany seizes the world's largest yacht (at least according to volume)

German authorities impounded the 15,917-ton yacht after confirming that sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov had transferred ownership to his sister, who is also under Western sanctions.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

A key warship in Russia's fleet was severely damaged. Ukraine claims responsibility

The Moskva has been heavily damaged and its crew evacuated. The ship is the same one whose crew ordered Ukrainian troops on Snake Island to surrender — a demand that was met with profanity.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Brian Mann
An Ukrainian man stands among the ruins at a residential area damaged by shelling in Lysychansk, Ukraine, on Wednesday.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 13)

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

April 13, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A resident walks his bicycle on a narrow path between craters made by artillery in a neighborhood of Chernihiv.

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  • Europe

Residents of a devastated Chernihiv ponder their future after a Russian siege ends

For weeks, the Ukrainian city was bombarded daily. Villages outside of town were reduced to rubble. Residents are cleaning up and wondering how to move forward with their homes and livelihoods gone.

April 13, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
A priest and relatives on Tuesday stand near the exhumed body of Gostomel's mayor, Yuriy Prylypko, who had been buried near a church in the village in the Kyiv region. Prylypko, 62, was killed on March 7 after Russian forces rolled into his village.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 12)

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

April 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Alla Ilyinichna Sinelnikova (left), 90, and Sonya Leibovna Tartakovskaya, 83, were recently evacuated from Ukraine to Germany. Both are survivors of the Holocaust, and this is the second time they are fleeing war. "I never thought I would live to see such horror for the second time in my life," says Sinelnikova. "I thought it was in my past, all over and done with. And now we're reliving it."

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  • World

Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee war again — this time to Germany

Germany has welcomed dozens of the oldest refugees fleeing Ukraine — those who survived the Holocaust during World War II. They've now narrowly escaped death for the second time in their lives.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Esme Nicholson
Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza attends a conference of Russia's leading rights group Memorial in Moscow in October.

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  • World

U.S. calls for the immediate release of a vocal Kremlin critic detained in Moscow

Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police orders on Tuesday, the day after his arrest. The opposition leader has been speaking out against Russia's war in Ukraine.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A menorah memorial at the entrance of the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, was damaged in Russian shelling last month.

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  • World

Holocaust museums in 4 countries condemn Russia's actions in Ukraine as war crimes

The group of 17 Holocaust museums from the U.S., U.K., Canada and South Africa are supporting an international investigation into whether Russia committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A view of a mass grave by a church on April 4 in Bucha, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

An expert says it may be hard, but not impossible, to prove genocide in Ukraine

Should the atrocities in Ukraine be called war crimes, ethnic cleansing or genocide? The terms can be tricky to differentiate, but experts say the separate labels are crucial in seeking justice.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Clark
A view of a mass grave by a church on April 4 in Bucha, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

An expert says it may be hard, but not impossible, to prove genocide in Ukraine

Should the atrocities in Ukraine be called war crimes, ethnic cleansing or genocide? The terms can be tricky to differentiate, but experts say the separate labels are crucial in seeking justice.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Clark
Emergency workers conduct mine-clearing operations among destroyed vehicles on a street of Bucha outside of Kyiv last week.

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  • Europe

Zelenskyy accuses Russians of leaving thousands of land mines in the Kyiv area

Russia has withdrawn its troops from the area around Ukraine's capital, but they've left deadly explosive ordinance in homes, on streets and in fields, posing a deadly threat to civilians.

April 12, 2022
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  • Tim Mak
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