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March 9, 2022

Ukraine's 'cellar violinist' plays on as she shelters from bombs

Vera Lytovchenko has become an internet icon of resilience as images of the concert violinist playing in a bomb shelter have inspired an international audience.

March 8, 2022

Ukraine refugees fleeing Russian invasion reaches 2 million, UN says

The number of refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to neighboring countries has reached at least 2 million, according to the United Nations.

March 8, 2022

Reporter's Notebook: Once-lively Ukraine city turns nearly silent

Russia's war on Ukraine means Lviv's livelihood is gone. Millions have been forced out of their homes and left to flee everything they know and own.

March 3, 2022

American in central Ukraine providing shelter for refugees: 'If we take off now, who's going to serve them?'

An American who now calls the central Ukrainian city of Svitlovodsk home has decided to stay put amid Russia's invasion to provide shelter and aid to the refugees who are escaping the violence by fleeing west.

March 2, 2022

Moldova welcomes Ukrainian refugees, offers them jobs amid labor shortage: report

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing for their lives have arrived in Moldova, a country on Ukraine’s southern border, since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops across the border last week.

March 1, 2022

Ukraine refugees top 677,000 in what could be 'Europe’s largest displacement crisis this century,' UN says

At least 677,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries after Russian forces invaded last week, leading to what the United Nations says could be "Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century."

February 26, 2022

Refugees fleeing Ukraine number nearly 120,000, could reach 4 million as Russian invasion intensifies: UN

Refugees fleeing Ukraine so far number nearly 120,000 as Russia continues to pound the country's capital on the third day of its full-scale invasion.

February 8, 2022

Poland prepares for 'up to a million' refugees fleeing Ukraine as Russian threat continues: report

Poland has braced itself to receive "up to a million refugees" fleeing Ukraine if Russia invades the former Soviet nation.

January 25, 2022

Nearly two dozen US citizens and legal residents escape Afghanistan with the help of US veterans and civilians

Nearly two dozen U.S. citizens and legal U.S. residents met at a safe house in Kabul on Thursday evening to prepare for their long-awaited escape from Afghanistan, almost five months after the Pentagon announced that the last evacuation flight was off the ground in Kabul.

October 7, 2021

State Department blames private charters for 'several' inaccurate Afghan refugee flight manifests

The State Department on Thursday said that some of the manifests clearing Afghan refugees for entry into the U.S. were not accurate.