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News Articles: Series: The Ukraine invasion, explained

A man walks his bike through a parking lot littered with broken glass in Bucha, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

In Bucha, death, devastation and a graveyard of mines

Images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha shocked the world and intensified concerns of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Officials want more military aid, and bigger consequences for Russia.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
El Peso Hero saves civilians in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol in a special edition of Héctor Rodríguez's self-published comic book series. The 18-page issue is free, with text in English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian.

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  • Arts & Life

Mexican American superhero saves Ukrainian civilians in comic book issue

Fed up with Mexico's non-interventionist policy after Russia invaded Ukraine, Héctor Rodríguez sends his Mexican American superhero to Mariupol in the latest issue of the series.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
People who fled the war in Ukraine and members of the Ukrainian diaspora pray in an Orthodox church in Krakow on Sunday.

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  • World

Krakow, Poland's second-largest city, strains to accommodate Ukrainian refugees

More than 150,000 displaced Ukrainians now live in Krakow, increasing the population by 20% in just a few weeks. Now the city is helping them find long-term housing, jobs and spots in schools.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis
Shelter animals are also suffering the consequences of the war in Ukraine. This week, volunteers at a shelter outside Kyiv, the capital, found more than 250 malnourished dogs that had survived weeks without food or water but also more than 300 that had starved to death.

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  • Animals

More than 300 dogs die of hunger and thirst in a Ukraine shelter

Workers were forced to abandon the shelter for weeks as Kyiv was bombarded by Russian troops. Now that the occupying forces are gone, volunteers returned to find hundreds of dead dogs.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
A woman walks past a currency exchange office in central Moscow on Feb. 24.

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  • Economy

How Russia rescued the ruble

The Russian ruble lost nearly half its value when Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, it has been the top-performing currency in the world.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch
Dima, who fled the war in Ukraine with his mother, attends an online class, at the "Saint John the Baptist" Monastery in Ruscova, where 12 Ukrainians are currently being hosted, on March 30, 2022 in Ruscova, Romania.

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  • Education

Millions of Ukrainian children are still in school despite the war

Ukraine's focus on maintaining education during a war is in line with an emerging philosophy of disaster response.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Anya Kamenetz
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the United Nations Security Council via video link on Tuesday in New York City.

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  • World

Zelenskyy urges U.N. Security Council to boot Russia or dissolve for the world's sake

The Ukrainian president described the horrific scenes he saw in Bucha, calling it just one example of the destruction Russia has wrought. He urged the Security Council to hold Russia accountable.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A 2014 photo of the offshore loading platform of Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal, which exports liquefied natural gas.

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  • Climate

How the war in Ukraine could speed up Europe's climate plans

There's concern the U.S. push to send more natural gas to Europe will increase climate warming emissions. But energy experts say the crisis might actually speed up the shift to cleaner energy.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Laura Benshoff
Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Charging Putin for potential war crimes is difficult, and any penalty hard to enforce

Neither Russia nor its president is likely to face an international tribunal — but that's not the only approach to war crimes, experts say.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A poster photo of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed is hung in Lafayette Park near the White House on Wednesday.

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  • World

Trevor Reed's family says he's back in a Russian prison hospital but not getting care

Reed's family says he has tuberculosis symptoms and lost 7 pounds in five days during a hunger strike. They are calling for the Biden administration to help bring the Marine veteran home.

April 04, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Russia's communications regulator is threatening to fine Google and Wikipedia for not removing what it describes as misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

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  • Business

Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't remove some details about the war

Russia's communications regulator says it will fine Wikipedia up to $47,000 for not complying with requests to take down information. It has made similar warnings to Google about YouTube videos.

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Energoatom, Ukraine's state power company, has warned that Russian soldiers likely received high radiation doses at Chernobyl. Here, an abandoned railway is seen in the Chernobyl zone close to the Ukraine-Belarus border, weeks before the Russian invasion.

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  • Europe

'Russian mutants lost this round,' Ukraine says after troops leave Chernobyl

Ukraine's defense ministry cited two reasons for the Russian exit: military losses and radiation exposure. They likely disturbed polluted soil in the Chernobyl zone's contaminated Red Forest.

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv on Thursday night. He said he had stripped two generals of their military rank and that all traitors will ultimately be punished.

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  • Europe

Zelenskyy calls 2 Ukrainian generals traitorous and strips them of their rank

Zelenskyy did not elaborate on what prompted the removal of the intelligence officers, one of whom has ties to the fallen Ukrainian city of Kherson. But he vowed traitors would "all be punished."

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Since the war began, he has been appealing to world leaders for more support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.

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  • World

Americans have more confidence in Zelenskyy than Biden when it comes to world affairs

Some 72% of Americans have confidence in the Ukrainian president's handling of world affairs, a Pew Research Center survey finds. Meanwhile, just 48% say the same about U.S. President Biden.

March 31, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of a destroyed Russian armored personnel carrier in a village on the frontline of the northern part of the Kyiv region on Monday. Russia says its troops are starting to withdraw from Kyiv, thought the Pentagon believes they will likely be deployed elsewhere in Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Russian troops leaving Kyiv area as Moscow focuses more on eastern Ukraine

The Russians are pulling some troops away from Ukraine's capital Kyiv. But what exactly does this mean? U.S. and Ukrainian officials suspect Moscow may just be pausing before another big offensive.

March 31, 2022
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  • Steve Inskeep,
  • Greg Myre,
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