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After fleeing northern Ukraine, a family works to start a new life

4:38pm April 19, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

A family who fled the northern city of Chernihiv resettled in western Ukraine. Four weeks after they escaped, they're adjusting to a quieter normal life and dealing with their traumas.

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Ukrainian soldiers stand on an armored personnel carrier not far from the front line with Russian troops in Izyum district, Kharkiv region, on Monday.

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Ukraine says Russia's offensive in Donbas has begun. Here's what we know

4:05pm April 19, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces have begun their new offensive against cities in the east and south and that a "substantial part" of the Russian army is taking part.

Amira, the younger daughter in the Koliubaiev family, sits quietly by herself in Arlington, Va., on April 9. She and her mother and sister are staying with a host family after fleeing the war in Ukraine.

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A Ukrainian family finds solace in America but cannot escape heartbreak

1:35pm April 19, 2022

by Olivia Hampton

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Eka Koliubaieva and her two daughters fled to the U.S., where a Virginia couple took them in after learning about the family's plight from a Facebook post.

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A Ukrainian soldier stands on an armored personnel carrier near the front lines with Russian troops in Izium, in eastern Ukraine, on Monday. Russia fared poorly when it invaded Ukraine eight weeks ago. Now Russia says it has now launched a new offensive f

As Russia launches a new offensive, what did it learn from the first one?

1:02pm April 19, 2022

by Greg Myre

When Russia invaded Ukraine eight weeks ago, its war plan failed on multiple fronts. Russia has now regrouped and is focused on the east of Ukraine, hoping to avoid the earlier mistakes.

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News brief: battle for eastern Ukraine, travel mask mandate, China's COVID lockdown

7:34am April 19, 2022

Ukraine's president says the Russian offensive in the east has begun. A federal judge has struck down the transportation mask mandate. Dozens of Chinese cities are in some kind of COVID lockdown.

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Pentagon says Russia is still laying the groundwork for offensive in eastern Ukraine

7:27am April 19, 2022

Ukraine's president says the long awaited Russian offensive in the east of the east has begun. After Ukraine's surprising resilience in the north, this next phase of the fighting is seen as critical.

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Vladimir Putin speaks with then-economic development and trade minister Elvira Nabiullina in Moscow on October 20, 2008 at a foreign investors advisory council meeting.

Who is the real Elvira Nabiullina?

6:30am April 19, 2022

by Paddy Hirsch

Russian central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina has cultivated the image of a nerdy, opera-loving technocrat, trapped in place by Putin's decision to go to war in Ukraine. It's not that simple.

What are the ripple effects of sanctioning Russia's richest and most powerful?

5:20am April 19, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Alex Finley, a former CIA officer and novelist who's tracking super-yachts used by oligarchs, about what sanctions against Russia mean for the country's super-rich.

A combine harvests wheat, near Pullman, Wash. Preventing food insecurity globally amid skyrocketing prices driven by the war in Ukraine will be the main topic at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.

Global finance meeting focuses on war-driven food insecurity

1:25am April 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

Russia and Ukraine produce roughly 14% of the world's wheat supply, according to the United Nations, and the war has resulted in soaring food prices and fears about food security globally.

A couple walk in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower and St Basil's cathedral in downtown Moscow. While 80% of poll respondents say they support Russia's military, some have mixed feelings.

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What Russians think of the war in Ukraine, according to an independent pollster

1:13am April 19, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Denis Volkov acknowledges that public opinion polling in Russia has its challenges and pitfalls, but says the findings still hold valuable information.

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