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The White House sent a $33 billion request to Congress for Ukraine. NPR's A Martinez spoke with depu

Millions have fled the war in Ukraine and left the country, but some refuse to leave. For one family

South Korea is the world's sixth-largest arms exporter and Ukraine has turned to it for help in its

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the president of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, about the role o

A Polish farming town on the Ukrainian border has organized weekly shipments of protective equipment

Russia is cutting off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, and has demanded countries pay fo

Atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine have led to widespread accusations of war crimes.

For many Ukrainians, there can be no negotiated peace with Russia. Evidence and accounts of atrociti

Russia's state-run gas company has cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. At the heart of this move: t

People in the Ukrainian city of Odesa are considering how their deep Russian heritage can fit into U

The White House is rushing more weapons to Ukraine to try to ensure "a strategic defeat" for Russia.

Ukraine's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, is determined to hold Russian President Vladimir Pu

The United Nations secretary general met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minis

The U.S. wants to weaken Russia to the point where it can't wage a war like this again. NPR's Leila

A small Ukrainian town near the Russian border was the first to be liberated after a four-week Russi

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wants to see the Russian military weakened on the ba

Ukrainian forces are struggling to neutralize cluster munitions, which are bombs that scatter over a

In Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine, one jazz club has continued to host performances despite

This weekend is Orthodox Easter, a holiday celebrated in Ukraine. Millions are fleeing the Russian i

As a Russian general reveals Kremlin plans to take Ukraine's Donbas region to the east as well as al