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Ukraine War

 Former combat medic Hector Bernal trains soldiers in tactical medicine at his center outside Bogotá. Bernal says he’s trained more than 20 soldiers who have gone to Ukraine recently.
Ukraine
Colombian army veterans join Ukraine’s army — motivated by financial need
farmer
Ukraine
Farmland off-limits in Ukraine due to mines
US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink in Kyiv.
Ukraine
US Amb Bridget Brink: ‘I see no break in support’ to help Ukraine prevail against Russia
Karolina Daremyan bikes just six weeks after receiving her new prosthetic legs at Shriners Children's Boston.
Ukraine
How a Boston hospital transformed a Ukrainian child’s life
Funeral workers burry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body, who died in Bucha during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
Digital clues and the stories Ukraine’s mass graves tell
man at podium
Conflict
The controversial Chechen leader who supports Putin in Ukraine
Firefighters and police officers work on a site where an explosion created a crater on the street after a Russian attack in Dnipro, Ukraine
Ukraine
Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes
destroyed room with books
On Course
US educators step up to help displaced Ukrainians continue their studies
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as French President Emmanuel Macron, looks on before a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine
Many Germans fear ‘active participation in war’ as country increases military aid to Ukraine
man with a cat
Ukraine
‘Death is still better than living in Russia’: A Ukrainian medic on the front lines says there’s no choice but to fight
A motorcyclists watches as an employee of a fuel stationin fills petrol, in Mumbai, India
Energy
India, China growing markets for shunned Russian oil
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra rehearses at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the day before the premiere performance of the "Voice of Ukraine" tour that took them to nine cities across Poland and Germany
Arts, Culture & Media
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra fights on the war’s ‘cultural front’
A man feeds a child as they arrive by bus at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Ukraine
First civilians leave Mariupol steel plant; hundreds remain
Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
Posters of French President Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection in Saint Pee sur Nivelle, southwestern France
Elections
Ukraine and COVID give Macron a boost in the polls ahead of French elections
Natalya, a 70-year-old retired epidemiologist from Odessa, has lunch at the Asconi Winery near Chisinau, in Moldova, where she is being hosted for free.
Ukraine
Moldova struggles amid fallout from war in Ukraine
Alina Yurkiv sits with Dmitry Korkin at his home in Westborough, Massachusetts, on March 16, 2022. Korkin, a computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is using his connections so that whenever Yurkiv's husband, an economist in Ukraine
On Course
Echoing WWII rescue efforts, ethnic Russian researchers in the US support Ukrainian scholars
A woman takes stock of the damage to an apartment block, hit by shelling in a small town near Debaltseve, Ukraine on February 2, 2015.
Conflict
Several thousand civilians are trapped on Ukraine’s latest battlefield