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War in Ukraine

Kharkiv Pre-trial Detention Center Number 27 in Ukraine
Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine engage in prisoner swaps to retrieve their own fighters
US Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the second day of the Aero India 2023 at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Feb. 14, 2023.
Military
Military spending around the world reached record highs last year, new data shows
Artwork by Nelli Isupova, who lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Arts
A family of artists expresses how the war in Ukraine impacts their creative work
Denmark's military officers stand next to a Leopard 2A7 tank at the Tapa Military Camp, in Estonia, Jan. 19, 2023.
Ukraine
Tanks for Ukraine are ‘ready to go’ when Germany and US strike a deal, retired Navy Adm. says
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko talk during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022.
Ukraine
Putin reinforces military, security bonds with Belarus at Minsk meeting
An iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the Arctic Circle, Aug, 16, 2005. A new report finds permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever before.
Environment
Critical permafrost research in Russia disrupted by war in Ukraine
Residents of Izium take a break next to some shattered stores. Most of the residents left but some elderly stayed behind.
Ukraine
Izium was liberated in September. The hard work of returning back to normal has only begun.
Historians come together to uncover disturbing aspects of Polish and Eastern European shared history.
Ukraine
War in Ukraine spurs new bonds between historians of shared Soviet past
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, an elderly man sits inside a bus in the station of Moscow, Russia. More and more migrants from the Central Asia are coming come to Moscow in search of work.
Ukraine
Russia’s war creates economic hardships for Central Asian migrants
destroyed tanks
Ukraine
These Ukrainians are trying to rebuild their lives at home — despite renewed Russian strikes
headshot of man
Ukraine
Russian dissident remains in prison on trumped-up charges
Russian opposition figure and former owner of the Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks during a press conference with Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs at the "Esperanza" hotel in Paunguriai village
Leaders
Russia must change its power structure to get back on a democratic path, opposition figure says
Bulletproof gear made by the MC Armor company in Colombia, ready to be shipped to Ukraine.
Ukraine
Body armor factories in the Americas are sending gear to war-torn Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees wait for a transport at the central train station in Warsaw, Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
A man in shadow near greenery
Trump administration
Why did Trump withhold military aid from Ukraine?