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Russia-Ukraine: ‘Helping refugees is easy now. It may get harder’

A Polish humanitarian worker describes a mood of overwhelming support for Ukrainians, but worries this could change.

Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2022

From Lviv to Kyiv, snapshots of Ukraine in a time of war

One month has passed since Russia launched its "special military operation" on February 24, turning Ukraine into a war zone. On a journey from the Polish border to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, FRANCE 24 met civilians and soldiers suddenly plunged into a brutal and bloody conflict.

France 24 · Mar 24, 2022

Live updates: Ukraine says Russian landing ship destroyed

Ukraine’s navy on Thursday reported destroying Russia’s large landing ship, Orsk, near the port city of Berdyansk

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2022

Ukrainians go on counteroffensive near capital even as Russia moves into strategic port

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces defending the capital, Kyiv, managed to wrest back control of a strategic outlying town that Russian troops had earlier captured, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, but invading troops were reported to have breached the besieged port city of Mariupol, scene of some of the war’s most…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 22, 2022

Ukraine mourns fallen soldiers and civilians and warns 'this is the price' of not closing the sky

In Ukraine, there are mass graves for massacred civilians and haunting ceremonies for fallen soldiers. The fallout of war is now reaching even the smallest villages, and those who live there have a warning for the West.

ABC News · Mar 22, 2022

In Ukraine, life goes on despite Putin

Lviv is flooded with refugees and Russian attacks continue — but Ukrainians understand their place in history

Salon · Mar 22, 2022

Nine tonnes of humanitarian aid donated by North Tyneside residents arrives in Ukraine

A shipment of aid sent from Tyneside on March 12 has now safely arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine.

Chronicle Live · Mar 22, 2022

‘Worse than a horror film’: Refugees from Ukraine's Mariupol describe city's devastation

Viktoria and Oleksii Kazantsev had been sheltering in Mariupol before leaving the port city in their car, which had been protected from Russian forces' bombardment in an underground garage. Now in Lviv with their daughter, they describe the devastation they witnessed as they fled.

France 24 · Mar 22, 2022

With help from Philly, disabled Ukrainians seek escape from war

In Ukraine, the bomb shelters aren't wheelchair accessible.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 22, 2022

Global outrage grows over Putin’s merciless attacks in Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — International outrage mounted Monday over medieval scenes of suffering in Mariupol, a strategic southern port city that has defied demands for surrender despite a ferocious Russian siege that Ukrainian officials say has trapped thousands of civilians and left corpses lying in the streets.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 22, 2022