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News Articles: Russian invasion

Residents walk past an apartment building on Wednesday in Mariupol, Ukraine, destroyed during the war with Russia.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 20)

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

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  • NPR Staff
A woman walks next to a damaged building after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 19)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Firefighters battle a blaze after a civilian building was hit by a Russian missile on Monday in Lviv, Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said at least seven people were killed and more were wounded in missile strikes in different areas of the city.

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

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

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  • NPR Staff
Crews carry body bags as they search for remains and remove debris in the Borodyanka area outside Ukraine's capital of Kyiv on Friday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 15)

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

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  • NPR Staff
A soldier and a woman walk past the headquarters for Russian troops in September 2021 in the town of Tiraspol, in Trans-Dniester, a pro-Russian region that declared independence from Moldova but is internationally unrecognized. Russia has stationed 1,500 soldiers in the area.

With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state

One of Europe's poorest countries, Moldova has a separatist region that hosts 1,500 Russian troops. Since the Ukraine war, Moldova's applied to join the EU, even as it keeps a policy of neutrality.

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  • Frank Langfitt
Russian navy officers line up on the deck as the guided missile cruiser Moskva (Moscow) sailed into a harbor after tracking NATO warships in the Black Sea, in the port of Sevastopol, Crimea, Nov. 16, 2021. Russian authorities said the Moskva sank Thursday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 14)

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

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  • NPR Staff
A priest and relatives on Tuesday stand near the exhumed body of Gostomel's mayor, Yuriy Prylypko, who had been buried near a church in the village in the Kyiv region. Prylypko, 62, was killed on March 7 after Russian forces rolled into his village.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 12)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Workers remove a destroyed Russian military tank from the road near Andriivka, a village close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 11)

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

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  • NPR Staff
<strong>April 3:</strong> A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Photos: Russian attacks leave catastrophic scenes, as many flee or are displaced

Ukraine has launched an investigation into war crimes officials believe have been committed by Russian forces during the course of the invasion.

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  • Marco Storel
A local resident carries a cage on Thursday while walking past an apartment building destroyed in the besieged city of Mariupol.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 31)

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

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  • NPR Staff
This aerial view taken near Kyiv on Wednesday shows a destroyed house in the village of Lukianivka.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 30)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Firefighters continue working on Tuesday to cool down a destroyed logistics warehouse where thousands of tons of food became unusable after Russian shelling hit the facility on March 13 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 29)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Volunteers, many of them forced to flee the war in other parts of Ukraine, pack meals for members of the country's Territorial Defense Forces in Moderna restaurant in Dnipro, Ukraine.

With front lines on 3 sides, Ukraine's Dnipro sharpens its focus on the war

The city, an island of relative safety surrounded by fighting, has become a hub for humanitarian aid and for people fleeing the war in the Donbas and other parts of Ukraine.

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  • Becky Sullivan
A view of some of the damage after shelling in pro-Russian, separatist-controlled Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, on Monday. Several houses and garages were damaged, and some homes were completely burned down.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 28)

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

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  • NPR Staff
Maxar collected new satellite imagery of the southern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk that reveals a Russian Alligator-class landing ship that is burned and partially submerged near one of the port's loading/unloading quays. Fire and smoke is also seen nearby and close to several fuel storage tanks.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 25)

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

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  • NPR Staff