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News Articles: Series: The Ukraine invasion, explained

A nurse administers a shot to a patient.

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  • World

Fighting to survive: Ukraine's cancer patients' struggle to find care while fleeing

Supplies are running low at Lviv's regional cancer hospital in Ukraine. The patient load has doubled and supplies in Kyiv are inaccessible. But hospital staff choose the duty of care over safety.

March 18, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Arezou Rezvani,
  • and 4 more
In a picture taken on Friday, 109 empty strollers are seen arrayed outside the Lviv City Council, highlighting the number of children killed in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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  • Europe

109 empty strollers sit in a Lviv square, representing children killed in the war

"This is a terrible price of war that Ukraine is paying today," Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said as his city paid tribute to the youngest victims of violence.

March 18, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Smoke billows over a street near the airport in Lviv after Russian airstrikes hit a jet repair facility.

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  • World

Russian missiles hit a fighter jet repair facility in the closest strike yet to Lviv

The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has been a bastion of relative normalcy since the Russian invasion began last month. Friday's strike, just over 4 miles from the city center, rattled residents.

March 18, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
A demonstrator, holding a Ukrainian flag, participates in a demonstration called by 70 associations in support of Ukraine on the square of Paris' town hall on Thursday. It has been three weeks since Russia began its assault on Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Ukraine appears to have stalled Russia's advance. Here's what that could mean

It's been three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and while many thought that it would be over quickly, Ukraine is continuing to fend Russia off. Now, some analysts think Ukraine could win the war.

March 18, 2022
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By:
  • Wynne Davis
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via teleconference call on March 3.

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  • World

Putin's warning to anti-war Russians evokes Stalinist purges

The Russian president's references to "cleansing" of "scum and traitors" evoked terrifying memories of the mass arrests of the Stalin era, when repression was justified for "cleansing" Soviet society.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury, pictured at a game in 2021. Russian state media reports she will remain in custody until May 19.

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  • Sports

A Russian court extended Brittney Griner's detention until May 19, state media says

Russian authorities said earlier this month that they detained Griner at a Moscow-area airport for allegedly transporting vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A nurse checks a baby in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. More than 300 health facilities lie within conflict lines or areas that Russia claims to control, according to the World Health Organization.

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  • World

The WHO says Ukrainian health care is under attack, and it needs more funds to help

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A pro-Ukrainian military poster hangs on a building in downtown Lviv, Ukraine.

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  • Europe

How some people are trying to make art, not war, in Ukraine right now

The lead singer in Ukraine's biggest rock band is one of Ukrainian celebrities who are using their fame and connections to speed relief supplies to those who need them most.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Olena Lysenko
A satellite of the Mariupol theater from Monday, before it was bombed. The word "Children" is written in white on the pavement.

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  • Europe

Russia bombed a Mariupol theater with 'Children' sign outside — but shelter survived

A glimmer of good news has emerged in Mariupol, where people are being pulled out of a theater that was being used as a shelter.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
This image provided by the Marine Corps shows a Switchblade drone. One hundred Switchblades — which are small enough to be carried in a backpack — are part of the new U.S. package to Ukraine.

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  • Europe

What the latest U.S. military aid to Ukraine can tell us about the state of the war

The package by the White House includes missiles to take out tanks and bring down Russian aircraft — as well as drones that the U.S. hasn't provided previously.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel,
  • Greg Myre,
  • and 1 more
Oleh Pokrovsky helps man a small checkpoint on a bumpy road leading to his village. "The privilege that we have of sitting here at this checkpoint is thanks directly to those who are enlisted in the military and are defending Ukraine's borders," he says. "If it weren't for them, then this would be under Russian occupation right now."

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  • World

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians guard checkpoints and wait for the war to come

Checkpoints have sprung up across Ukraine since Russia's invasion. Men at a checkpoint near Lviv have Molotov cocktails ready. Even hundreds of miles from the battles, the war hangs over everything.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas and
  • Ryan Kellman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the U.S. Congress by video on Wednesday to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 16)

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

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • NPR Staff
As people pour off the trains arriving in Lviv, signs offer guidance on transportation, shelter and other aid.

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  • World

Lviv takes in displaced Ukrainians but space and resources are strained

Space and resources are strained in the western city of Lviv. More than 200,000 Ukrainians have temporarily settled in the city while Russian airstrikes continued this past week.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt and
  • Ryan Kellman
Yevgenia Belorusets is a writer and photographer living in Kyiv.

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  • Arts & Life

In Ukraine, writer-photographer Yevgenia Belorusets documents Kyiv's displaced

Belorusets' book Lucky Breaks, written in the aftermath of Russia's previous assault into Ukraine in 2014, was published in English this month. The author remains in Kyiv producing art as war rages.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
A family in an evacuation train says goodbye to a young man at the central train station in the southern city of Odessa. Russian forces have made progress in the south, overrunning the city of Kherson.

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  • Europe

A college student in occupied Ukraine says buying food means it's a lucky day

What's daily life like in one of the recently-occupied parts of Ukraine? One college student in the southern city of Kherson steps through his new reality.

March 16, 2022
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
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