Ukraine

Russia’s war with Ukraine isn’t confined to Ukraine’s east. Powerful explosions were heard early Monday in the town of Korosten, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, west of Kyiv. That report comes from the deputy mayor of Korosten, in the Zhytomyr District in northwest Ukraine. Ukrainian news agencies report the third straight day of apparent attacks in the northwest. On...

President Joe Biden has signed legislation granting Ukraine an additional $40 billion in U.S. support as it continues to battle a Russian invasion. The legislation includes $20 billion in military assistance, $8 billion in general economic support, $5 billion to address global food shortages that could result from the collapse of Ukrainian agriculture and more than $1 billion to help...

As the West rallies behind Ukraine in its war with Russia, Polish President Andrzej Duda has arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit. Duda’s office says he will address Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday. Poland has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees and is a strong supporter of the country’s desire to join the European Union. The fate of the nearly 2,500...

Russia claims to have captured Mariupol in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine. A spokesman said the Russian defense minister reported the “complete liberation” of the Azovstal steel plant — the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance — and the city as a whole. The announcement followed a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of...

President Joe Biden is meeting with leaders of Sweden and Finland Thursday after the two countries began the process of application for NATO membership in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Two weeks ago, a Northern Virginia veterinarian overwhelmed with the urge to bring some relief to Ukraine packed her bags and flew there to use her abilities as a trained veterinarian to help animals and try to keep them alive in hopes of a reunion with their owners.

Ukraine surrendered a steel plant in the city of Mariupol and evacuated troops, giving full control of the battleground city to Russian forces. But experts including Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, worry Russia will “parade around” freed Ukrainian soldiers and not live up to humanitarian agreements. He explains more on LX News.

Grimes is doing her part to support the Black, Indigenous and people of color of Ukraine by auctioning off some of her most memorable fashion accessories.

The fall of Mariupol appears at hand as Ukraine is moving to abandon a sprawling steel plant where its soldiers had held out under relentless bombardment for months, which would make it the biggest city to fall into Russian hands. Much of it, though, has been reduced to rubble. Ukraine estimates some 20,000 civilians have been killed in the Russian...

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has won the Eurovision Song Contest in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation that went beyond the music.

The Group of Seven leading economies have warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries. They said urgent measures are needed to unblock stores of grain that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine. In a statement Saturday at the end of a three-day meeting on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, the...

Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks. Officials say Moscow’s troops are pulling back from Kharkiv in the northeast while launching mortar, artillery and airstrikes in the eastern province of Donetsk. According to Ukraine’s defense minister, the country is “entering a new, long-term phase of the war” after more than 11...

In the dim basement, where heavily pregnant women must bend low to avoid the water pipes, there is a delivery table in case a baby comes amid the air raid sirens.

A local barbecue restaurant held a fundraiser to help a family from Ukraine. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on May 9, 2022.

Jill Biden spent several hours in Ukraine, driving from the border with Slovakia to a town 10 minutes away to see first lady Olena Zelenska on Mother’s Day. Biden is the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during the war, while Zelenska’s public appearance was her first since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The first ladies met at a...

Uniting for Ukraine, the Biden administration announced this program to prepare to take in as many as 100,000 refugees. Immigration lawyers say there are already about 5,000 who have made it to the U.S.

Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Greater Good Charities is on an international mission to help rescue pets abandoned by fleeing refugees.

The death and destruction happening right now in the city of Mariupol is heartbreaking for Vlada Mykhailneko because it’s her hometown.

A young Ukrainian couple is seeking refuge in Southern California after escaping the war. Tony Shin reports on the NBC4 News at 5 on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Russia’s military has launched a string of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network, which has been vital for moving Western arms to Ukrainian forces, evacuating refugees and exporting food.