Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 21)
A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The U.S. warns companies to stay on guard for possible Russian cyberattacks
President Biden said "evolving intelligence" showed Russia is "exploring options for potential cyberattacks." The U.S. has previously warned about Russia's capability to attack U.S. infrastructure.
A Slovak man wanted to take donations to Ukraine. He ended up leading a convoy of aid
Alarmed by the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia's invasion, an economist in Slovakia gathered food and clothes from friends — and found himself leading a convoy carrying tons of aid into Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials refuse to surrender Mariupol to Russian forces
Russian forces have shown few signs of advancing but are still actively destroying Ukraine. In the southern city of Mariupol, bombs targeted a school which was sheltering about 400 displaced people.
China Eastern Airlines jet carrying 132 people crashes in mountains
A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote, mountainous region of China Monday. There do not appear to be any survivors. Investigators are on their way to the scene.
The living, breathing sauce that's at the heart of China's regional cuisines
One of the great cornerstones of Chinese culture is its food. And at the heart of China's many regional cuisines is one, secret sauce: Lu.
Thousands of Russians are traveling to Georgia to flee their own government
More than 30,000 Russians have arrived in the country of Georgia since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russians are fleeing not war, but their own government. And they say they can't go back.
A Ukrainian church in Kentucky raises money for refugees through bake sale
A church in the town of Nicholasville, Ky., held a fundraiser for humanitarian relief for Ukraine over the weekend. It raised $145,000.
The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary
We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when Russian forces shelled his home
Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the memory of the Nazi crimes."