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News Articles: Ukraine military

A "Danger Mines!" sign is pictured in Izium, Ukraine.

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Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine

Human Rights Watch suggests that Ukraine scattered so-called petal mines in and around the city of Izium. Petal mines are prohibited under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, of which Ukraine is a signatory.

January 31, 2023
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  • Julian Hayda
British Army Challenger 2 tanks are seen at a training ground in Poland on Sept. 21, 2022. This week, Ukrainian soldiers have arrived in the United Kingdom for training on the Challenger 2.

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Latest on Ukraine: British tank training for Ukrainian troops has begun (Jan. 30)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

January 30, 2023
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  • NPR Staff
A man plays violin on the sidelines of a religious service held by local residents in front of an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Sunday. The building was destroyed by a Russian missile strike on Jan. 14.

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: Waiting for Germany's Leopard tanks (Jan. 23)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

January 23, 2023
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  • NPR Staff
Two Leopard 2 A6 heavy battle tanks and a Puma infantry fighting vehicle of the Bundeswehr's 9th Panzer Training Brigade participate in a demonstration of capabilities during a visit by then-Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht to the Bundeswehr Army training grounds in February 2022 in Munster, Germany.

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Germany signals it hasn't ruled out sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine

Western defense officials are meeting to coordinate military assistance to Ukraine. Germany has resisted their efforts to persuade the country to export its Leopard 2 tanks, or allow others to do so.

January 20, 2023
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  • Rob Schmitz
Yevhenia Podvoiska and Tatiana Kuznetsova, from left, both policewomen, steer and navigate a drone during class in Kyiv on Oct. 27. Students must learn to work in pairs: a pilot and a navigator.

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Ukrainian women have started learning a crucial war skill: how to fly a drone

The Female Pilots of Ukraine is the first of its kind in the country at a time when the Ukrainian military has been using drones for reconnaissance and fighting against Russian forces.

November 26, 2022
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  • Ashley Westerman
A woman holds a placard reading "Peace = Stop Putin" during a rally in support of Ukraine at Arco della Pace in Milan, Italy on Saturday.

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Italy has been a strong supporter of Ukraine — but that is starting to change

Though Italy's new prime minister vows to continue the country's staunch support for Ukraine, much of the public is critical of Italian weapons deliveries and analysts say the government may waver.

November 10, 2022
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a howitzer at a position on the front line near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Oct. 31.

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Ukraine updates: Iran admits sending Russia drones as electricity knocked out (Nov. 7)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

November 07, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A soldier who was formerly an IT entrepreneur and asked to be identified only by his call sign "Arun" manning a checkpoint in Borshchova, in northeastern Ukraine, on Friday. Ukrainian troops took back the area from Russian forces earlier this month.

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Ukraine's offensive in Kharkiv was hard and bitter, say soldiers who did the fighting

While Ukraine's counteroffensive this month was hailed as stunning by military observers, Ukrainian troops tell NPR that Russian forces put up stiff resistance in parts of the Kharkiv region.

September 29, 2022
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  • Jason Beaubien
A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izium, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said its swift offensive took significant ground back from Russia.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Sept. 12)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

September 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi talks to reporters on a road outside the city of Zaporizhzhia after his visit to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Sept. 1, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Sept. 5)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

September 05, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Black smoke rises at the front line in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast on Aug. 30 amid Russia's military invasion of the country. Ukraine has begun a major counteroffensive to retake areas in the south that Russia seized early in the war.

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  • World

Ukraine's southern offensive relies on heavy weapons. Soldiers say there aren't enough

Progress has been slow but Ukrainian military officers say U.S.-supplied rockets and training are making a difference from when NPR visited in the spring.

September 02, 2022
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  • Frank Langfitt
A priest prays for unidentified civilians killed by Russian troops in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 11. Eleven unidentified bodies exhumed from a mass grave were buried in Bucha that day.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Aug. 15)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

August 15, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Oleg Repnoy stands in front of his Evacuation 200 vehicle. "My job is to accompany these heroes on their last trip home," he says.

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These Ukrainian volunteers recover soldiers' remains to return them to their families

Evacuation 200 is a special volunteer unit that scours the country for the bodies of soldiers left on battlefields. "My job is to accompany these heroes on their last trip home," one volunteer says.

August 07, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Ukrainian troops repair an army tank in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on June 7. Ukrainians have been urging the U.S. and its allies to supply them more weapons in their fight against Russia, and Gen. Mark Milley, President Biden's top military adviser, told NPR that Russia has massed greater numbers of combat units, as well as more artillery, than the local defenders in the Donbas have.

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  • World

Ukraine finds itself outnumbered as Russia advances in the Donbas

U.S. Gen. Mark Milley says Ukraine faces a shortfall of weapons and troops while battling Russia's latest offensive.

June 16, 2022
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  • Steve Inskeep

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