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Oleksandr lost his right leg during combat. He is now going through rehab at the Unbroken National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv Ukraine.
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‘I want to stand up again’: Wounded Ukrainian veterans on the road to recovery
A bald-headed man buries his face in a Ukraine flag and cell phone
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‘I think they did this to break our will’: Freed Ukrainian POW tells his story
Point of view of a soldier on a field with a building in view
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The Ukrainian counteroffensive and what’s next
A bunch of flowers with the colors of the Ukrainian flag is laid down at the memorial for those killed during the war, near Maidan Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.
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‘The war is not over yet’: Ukraine marks 10-year anniversary of pivotal Maidan Revolution
Illustration of a destroyed library.
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Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
Panelist for the online event on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.
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LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine
Left to right: Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed; Screen shot form video; Vehicles on fire at an oil depot after missiles struck the facility in an area controlled by Russian-bac
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VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine
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‘We don’t have this past anymore’: Ukrainian artist revives Kyiv’s prewar soundscape
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Flooding from Ukraine’s ‘Hero River’ may be a silver lining of war
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The environmental cost of war in Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers fire toward Russian position on the frontline in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Saturday, June 24, 2023. 
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A team of journalists are on a mission to count Russian casualties
Cars queuing to cross the border into Kazakhstan at the Mariinsky border crossing, about (250 miles south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.
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Anti-war Russians who fled for safety now face deportation
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Big changes for this young Ukrainian in London
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Ukraine wins G7 security pledges but its path to NATO membership remains unclear 
soldiers in rehab center
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Wounded Ukrainian soldiers start new journeys on prosthetics
A group of mothers and guardians meet to discuss an upcoming trip to Russia and occupied parts of Ukraine to retrieve their missing children.
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Ukrainian parents take risky trips to Russia to retrieve their deported children
The common house is the heart of the Hallingelille ecovillage community in rural Ringsted, Denmark.
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A ‘green road’ leads displaced Ukrainians to shelter in ecovillages
Tattoo artists tattooing their clients.
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Ukrainians embrace tattoos as a form of patriotism
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Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidopliassova and fans rediscover an old hit 
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This fashion brand modernizes Ukraine’s traditional vyshyvanka shirt and dress to reflect wartime
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Russian artists in exile create new identity and work 
The downturn in Ionuț Spiță’s profits was driven by the glut of cheaper Ukrainian grain and oilseeds, intended for Africa and the Middle East that flooded the Central and Eastern European markets. 
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‘Trade is trade and war is war’: Romanian farmers say helping Ukraine is hurting their bottom line
US paratroopers parachute at the Yavoriv training range in the western Lviv region, Ukraine, on Monday, July 17, 2000.
Winning the peace
A visitor takes in the painting “Red Sunset," by Mariupol painter Arkhyp Kuindzhi. 
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Art historians debate identity of iconic Mariupol painter
Rescue workers clear the rubble from an apartment building that was destroyed in a Russian rocket attack at a residential neighbourhood in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. 
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‘We lost everything’: African students who fled war in Ukraine continue to struggle
Buildings on Central Street in Borodyanka, a Kyiv suburb, were directly struck by Russian missiles.
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‘I did it with my own two hands’: Ukrainians rebuild even as war continues
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Ukrainians reflect on life a year into war 
Leonid Ostalsev, 35, is serving in Ukraine’s patrol police, which works closely with Ukraine’s military. 
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Living, fighting, losing, winning: A Ukrainian soldier reflects on a year of war
The Talyzenkov family, currently living in London, England, heads back to Ukraine for a weeklong visit.
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‘Family is everything’: A train ride to a long-awaited reunion in Ukraine
Good Bread Bakery is baking and sending thousands of loaves of bread to the frontlines.
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Volunteers in Ukraine organize to ‘fill in gaps’ in ongoing war
US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet smiles ahead of a meeting in Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. 
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America’s top priority is to help Ukraine ‘defend itself’ as a sovereign nation, Blinken adviser says
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Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons
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How well is the grain deal working for Ukraine?
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Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Christmas amid raging war 
Joseph Arana Sanchez (center) rehearses on his guitar ahead of a benefit concert for fellow Ukrainians living in Vermont.
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This Vermont couple created a home for Ukrainian refugees with a focus on children with disabilities
A view of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine
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‘I thought we were going to die’: A Ukrainian woman speaks out about her ordeal as a prisoner of war
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Poland has taken in more Ukrainian refugees than any other EU country. Local mayors say they’re running out of money. 
Repair Together hosts a clean-up rave in Ivanivka, Chernihivska oblast.
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Clean-up raves invite volunteers to dance and rebuild together in Ukraine
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Ukrainian band Antytila on the front lines
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‘Knowledge has become our weapon’: Ukrainian children return to school amid war
The World's Daniel Ofman speaks with Lviv Mayor Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi about how he's helping his city prepare for a long winter amid the ongoing war with Russia. 
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‘Never give up’: Lviv mayor prepares for long winter amid ongoing war with Russia 
Some Ukrainian students were evacuated from Ukraine thanks to a Czech circus company, Cirk La Putyka. “Boom," a performance they took to Edinburgh, was rewritten to reflect the students’ perspectives of war and displacement.
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A bittersweet experience for Ukrainian artists at Edinburgh Festival
A man collects copper wires from the market which was destroyed after Russian bombardment in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. 
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Medics on Ukraine’s front lines say war takes a heavy toll on mental health 
The bulk carrier Razoni starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine
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1st ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa
A general view of a G7 leaders meeting with outreach guests as part of the working session of the G7 leaders summit, Kruen, Germany
Global Politics
NATO to boost reaction force, Ukraine support
Students at the Warsaw Ukrainian School (SzkoUA), in Warsaw, Poland, sing during an English lesson.
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‘Their lives collided with war’: Ukrainian refugees in Poland open their own schools
Runners training for the Boston Marathon
Sports
Far from the sidelines of the Boston Marathon, Ukrainian runners keep up their training
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Ukrainian seafarers stuck at US ports face tight restrictions, legal hurdles
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a media statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 
Refugees
As Canada prioritizes expedited arrivals for Ukrainians, at-risk Afghans remain trapped abroad
A photographer takes pictures of the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Energy
Saudi Arabia says it’s not responsible for high oil prices
In this image provided by the US Air Force, pallets of ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine are loaded on a plane by members from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware
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Harsh sanctions, military support are key to Ukraine’s defense, former amb to Ukraine says
Some 160 Ukrainian refugees — mostly women and young children — are being housed at a shelter in Calais while they wait for their visas to go to the UK.
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Ukrainian refugees trying to get to the UK are stuck in the French port city of Calais 
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Ukrainian, Russian tourists stranded abroad
The refugees from Ukraine to Romania's southern border are mainly women, children and elderly people. Men, ages 18 to 60, can’t leave Ukraine if they’re eligible for the draft.
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Ukrainians fleeing war are welcomed at Romania’s southern border
In the town of Suceava, Romania, the Mandachi Hotel and Spa, a four-star hotel converted its ballroom into a temporary shelter, serving food and other supplies to Ukrainian refugees.
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‘We have compassion for them’: Romania is taking in thousands of Ukrainian refugees
This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine
Nuclear
A Ukrainian nuclear plant survived Russian attack. But it raises security concerns over reactors in war zones, analyst says.
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged city center after Russian air raid in Chernigiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. 
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Russia’s invasion in Ukraine ‘is far from done,’ retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman says
People fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine arrive to Przemysl train station in Przemysl, Poland, on Feb. 25, 2022.
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Ukrainians abroad return to defend their homeland 
Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany
Energy
The invasion in Ukraine could mean less reliance on energy from Russia, analyst says
A Ukrainian woman waits for relatives fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Feb. 25, 2022. UN officials said that 100,000 people were believed to have left their homes and estimated up to 4
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Poland prepares to accept thousands of refugees from Ukraine