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A Ukrainian soldier fires a U.S.-made Javelin missiles during a training exercise in January. The Ukrainians have used the Javelins to repeatedly take out Russian tanks and other armored vehicles.

With small, portable weapons, Ukraine's fighters keep Russia at bay

1:43pm March 19, 2022

by Greg Myre

Ukraine is outgunned by Russia but is making the most of its mobile weapons that allow Ukrainian troops to be more nimble. Some of the most important weapons are from the United States.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-U.S Vice President Joe Biden inside the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013, in Beijing.

Biden tells China's Xi of the implications of assisting Russia in call, official says

7:35pm March 18, 2022

by Eric McDaniel

A White House official declined to lay out the specifics of any potential U.S. response, but said that Biden was "detailed" and "direct" with the Chinese leader.

Smoke billows over a street near the airport in Lviv, Ukraine.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 18)

6:15pm March 18, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

A nurse holds bottles of medications. The Lviv hospital had about three weeks of reserves on site.

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

3:42pm March 18, 2022

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.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via teleconference call on March 3.

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

8:04pm March 17, 2022

by NPR Staff

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.

A man walks on Thursday near a block of flats destroyed in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 17)

4:59pm March 17, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Bohdan Kulik, 62, built the outpost's stove. He is "the village Elon Musk," according to his friends.

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

1:04pm March 17, 2022

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.

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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.

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

7:11pm March 16, 2022

by NPR Staff

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

Sofia Dyak, director of Lviv's Center for Urban History, says the city has responded brilliantly, so far, to the influx of fellow Ukrainians displaced by war.

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Lviv takes in displaced Ukrainians but space and resources are strained

9:58am March 16, 2022

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.

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Russian Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a live broadcast in Moscow on Monday, holding up a poster reading "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine.

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What Ukraine war news looks like from Russia

11:14pm March 15, 2022

by NPR Staff

State TV has long been Russians' top news source. Now it's becoming the only word of record, presenting stories of "surgical" attacks on Ukrainian nationalists and threats of anti-Russian bioweapons.