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Continue Reading Russia widens attack on Ukraine’s cities, striking western airfields and Dnipro
Russian forces are expanding their offensive in Ukraine to the west for the first time. Meanwhile, Pres. Biden announces the US, along with the G7…
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By Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN Vova doesn’t know there is a war raging right outside his window. He doesn’t understand the…
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Prices continue to rise to staggering and historic levels. The latest Consumer Price Index found the cost of everyday goods rose 7.9% in the last 12…
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CNN’s Alex Marquardt reports on a Russian strike that killed civilians in the residential town Markhalivka,…
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has devastated the country, killing hundreds of civilians, sparking a humanitarian…
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As Russia begins attacks in Ukraine’s west, retired Col. Cedric Leighton explains a shift in their strategy, and what makes taking one Ukrainian city…
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Retired Major General James “Spider” Marks says new satellite images showing that a 40-mile Russian convoy has dispersed and repositioned is good…
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By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN A bombshell announcement by a United Arab Emirates diplomat on Wednesday raised hopes that Gulf oil producers might come to…
Continue Reading Russia widens attack on Ukraine’s cities, striking western airfields and Dnipro
A pair of staff members with Ukraine state emergency services defuse a bomb from a downed Russian fighter jet in Chernihiv. CNN’s Anderson Cooper…
Continue Reading Russia widens attack on Ukraine’s cities, striking western airfields and Dnipro
By Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Paul Murphy, Laura Smith-Spark and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian forces launched multiple missile attacks on a wide…
Continue Reading The 40-mile-long Russian convoy near Kyiv has moved. Here’s what it means for the Ukrainian capital
By Tim Lister, Paul P. Murphy, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN A 40-mile-long (64km) Russian military convoy, composed of tanks, armored…
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By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Jeevan Ravindran and Jason Kurtz, CNN…
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Retired. Gen. David Petraeus reacts after new satellite images show the long 40-mile-long Russian convoy outside of Kyiv dispersing into fields and…
Continue Reading One Ukrainian mom had to leave her own family to save her foster children
CNN’s Sara Sidner talks to caretakers who fled Ukraine with orphans and foster children during Russia’s…
Continue Reading One Ukrainian mom had to leave her own family to save her foster children
By Sara Sidner and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Oksana remembers how she knew the Russian attacks had started in Ukraine. It was about four in the morning…
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Ukrainian officials claim the military have defeated a Russian tank regiment outside the capital Kyiv and videos appear to show a number of tanks on…
Continue Reading She left Ukraine for a business trip. Her family are still trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol
Death and destruction lie in the wake of Russia’s bombardment of a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine. The reported attack came…
Continue Reading She left Ukraine for a business trip. Her family are still trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol
By Rebecca Wright and Olha Konovalova, CNN When translator Yulia Karaulan left Ukraine for a business trip to Italy on February 20, she thought she…
Continue Reading Denmark opens its arms to Ukrainians, while trying to send Syrian refugees home
By Tara John, CNN When Denmark became the first liberal democracy to tell Syrian refugees to return to their war-torn home in 2019, Russian jets were…
Continue Reading Mariupol children’s hospital bombing one of many attacks on medical facilities since Russian invasion, WHO says
By Tim Lister, Laura Smith-Spark, Olga Voitovych and Rob Picheta, CNN An injured woman, heavily pregnant, is carried on a stretcher past the…
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CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh goes to Mykolaiv, Ukraine, where he shares the stories of civilians injured by Russian attacks who still consider themselves…
Continue Reading March 10, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Meg Wagner, George Ramsay, Jack Guy, Helen Regan, Adam Renton, Melissa Macaya, Jason Kurtz, Aditi Sangal and Amir…
Continue Reading Russia admits conscripts have been fighting in Ukraine, despite Putin’s previous denials
Ukrainian restaurateur Misha Katsurin joins New Day to discuss his personal experience with the propaganda that is being spread through Russian media…
Continue Reading Russia admits conscripts have been fighting in Ukraine, despite Putin’s previous denials
By Sarah Dean and Rob Picheta, CNN Russia’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Russian military conscripts have been involved in the…
Continue Reading Russia’s bombing of maternity and children’s hospital an ‘atrocity,’ Zelensky says
Ukrainian officials are accusing Russian forces of bombing a maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine. CNN’s Scott McLean gives the latest of this…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s first lady emerges as a staunch defender of her nation on social media
By Lianne Kolirin and Tim Lister, CNN Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, posted an open letter addressed to the world’s media on…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s first lady emerges as a staunch defender of her nation on social media
CNN’s Brian Todd looks at how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is using social media to boost Ukrainians’ morale and win the information war…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Facts Haditha is a city on…
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