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News Articles: Ukraine invasion

Pope Leo XIV appealed for peace in Ukraine from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday during his first Sunday address after his election.

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  • Religion

Zelenskyy asks for Pope Leo XIV's help in bringing Ukrainian children home from Russia

Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Burke and
  • Jason DeRose
Steve Witkoff walks to an interview after meeting with Russian officials in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 18, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump has his old friend Steve Witkoff leading his toughest diplomatic talks

President Trump has put Steve Witkoff — a friend from New York's real estate world — in charge of delicate talks on the war in Ukraine, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the conflict in Gaza.

April 26, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Hanna and Arkadii Rubin try to convince their daughter Leya, 2, to go to bed, although she doesn't want to. They live in an apartment in Kharkiv where, just over a year ago, part of the building was damaged in a missile attack.

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  • World

Ukrainians face fears during the country's darkest nights

All over Ukraine, war has made nighttime darker. Satellite imagery shows a significant dimming of lights since 2022. Darkness has spread indoors too, with power cuts becoming common during the war.

April 05, 2025
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By:
  • Claire Harbage,
  • Catie Dull,
  • and 1 more
People wait in line to attend a Lenten fish fry at the Ukrainian American Community Center in Minneapolis, MN, March 7, 2025. All tips from the event are used to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine and support recently arrived Ukrainians.

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  • National

As protections expire, Ukrainians who escaped war face an uncertain future

A U.S. immigration program allowed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to escape war. As Trump decides whether or not to renew it, recipients fear being deported.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and
  • Joel Rose
Stanislava Lisovska, 40, (center left) stands at her husband Andrii Ruban's casket (who was killed at 41 years old) with soldiers from his unit, as they bury him in Odesa in February. Ruban a new father when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but like many in those early days, he volunteered to join the army and had been fighting ever since.

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  • World

Ukrainians in front line regions reel from losses, but say hope dies last for them

Into their fourth year of war, Ukrainians living in or near front line regions of their country grapple with their losses and contemplate an uncertain future.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Claire Harbage,
  • Catie Dull,
  • and 1 more
President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. The two men spoke Tuesday on matters including a ceasefire in the Ukraine war.

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  • Politics

Kremlin says it will halt strikes on Ukraine energy sector after Trump and Putin talk

President Trump has said he wants to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. This was his second call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Charles Maynes
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their Oval Office last Friday.  Zelenskyy left the contentious meeting without a deal.

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  • World

President Trump pauses Ukraine military aid

The news comes just days after a disastrous meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

March 03, 2025
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
From left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Not invited: anyone from Ukraine.

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  • World

Can there be peace in Ukraine, or is Putin just playing for time?

As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.

February 21, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Joanna Kakissis
First responders work the scene following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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  • Europe

Russian attack kills 4 people in Kyiv

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

January 18, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A man walks down a war-ravaged street in Pokrovsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Dec. 19, 2024. Behind him is the hotel Druzhba, which was destroyed by a Russian missile last summer. Pokrovsk was once home to 60,000 people. Now it's largely abandoned, with Russian troops active within a mile of the outskirts.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian soldiers and shopkeepers hold on as Russia's siege of Pokrovsk tightens

Ukrainian forces are fighting to hold on to the key city of Pokrovsk, in one of the fiercest battles in eastern Ukraine, but commanders admit the Russians have more troops and firepower.

January 02, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Life goes on at Odesa's beaches on Aug. 14, 2024, where the waves wash away worries, if only for a moment.

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  • World

Sun, sea and sirens: A summer in Odesa

This summer, despite the ongoing conflict, photographer Simona Supino captured an Odesa, Ukraine's coastal jewel, determined to hold onto its vibrancy and sense of normalcy.

October 26, 2024
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By:
  • Simona Supino
Firefighters extinguish a fire after a rocket hit a building of a higher education institution in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on Monday.

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  • Europe

Russia fires a barrage of drones and missiles at Kyiv as children return to school

Russia launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine's air force said early Monday, sending residents into bomb shelters.

September 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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  • Elections

With his choice of Vance as VP, Trump doubles down on his version of isolationism

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance share a vision on the direction of an evolving Republican party. They have argued that many foreign conflicts have failed to serve U.S. interests.

July 17, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Andrii Denysenko, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp," stands by Odyssey, an 800-kilogram (1,750-pound) ground drone prototype, at a cornfield in northern Ukraine on June 28, 2024. Facing manpower shortages and uneven international assistance, Ukraine is counting heavily on innovation at home to halt Russia’s incremental but pounding advance in the east.

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  • Europe

Ukrainian startups are creating a low-cost robot army to fight Russia

An ecosystem of labs in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.

July 15, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Ksenia Karelina, also known by the last name of Khavana, sits in a defendant’s cage in a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 20, 2024. The dual Russian-U.S. citizen was arrested on treason charges in Yekaterinburg in February after returning from Los Angeles to visit relatives. The charges reportedly stem from her $51 donation to a U.S. charity that helps Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Treason and espionage cases are rising in Russia since the war in Ukraine began

Treason cases have been rare in Russia in the last 30 years, with a handful annually. But since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, they have skyrocketed, along with espionage prosecutions.

July 14, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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