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Ukrainian jazz pianist pays homage to the fallen

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For many Ukrainians living abroad, Russia’s invasion of their country became a moment of reevaluation. Some began to rethink where they felt most at home. For others, though, their connection with their Ukrainian identity strengthened. For one New York-based jazz pianist, it wasn’t really one or the other — everything felt like it was in flux.

‘You just keep going’: This Ukrainian family is back together in Lviv but they miss their hometown of Kharkiv

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These students are in a classroom within Kharkiv's underground school system, which launched to protect students from Russian attacks in a city by the frontlines.

These Ukrainian students attend an underground school to protect them from Russian strikes

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Kharkiv Pre-trial Detention Center Number 27 in Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine engage in prisoner swaps to retrieve their own fighters

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The common house is the heart of the Hallingelille ecovillage community in rural Ringsted, Denmark.

A ‘green road’ leads displaced Ukrainians to shelter in ecovillages

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Refugees from Ukraine are fleeing the country and heading to places like Romania. Many are passing through customs in Siret, Romania.

In Putin’s information war, refugees beg their families to accept reality

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It’s a situation that many Ukrainians with families watching Russian state media propaganda are finding themselves in — trying to share the painful reality of war in Ukraine with their loved ones in Russia, who may or may not believe them. 

The refugees from Ukraine to Romania's southern border are mainly women, children and elderly people. Men, ages 18 to 60, can’t leave Ukraine if they’re eligible for the draft.

Ukrainians fleeing war are welcomed at Romania’s southern border

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In the Ukrainian city of Odessa, fears of an attack there have led thousands to flee across the border.

Not far outside of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine near the border with Russi, Ukrainian military forces are preparing for the worst. There’s a long-barbed wire fence separating Ukraine and Russia. Some 50 yards back, there’s an intricate system of trenches.

Ukrainians living near the border with Russia weigh in on threat of war

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The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that it’s pulling some troops back, away from Russia’s border with Ukraine. But the government in Kyiv is skeptical. Some residents on the border weigh in.

Close up of a woman wearing a head scarf in a church near a gold cross.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church gains independence from Moscow: ‘We have been waiting for this’

Religion

Ukrainians celebrate church independence, but the blessing from Istanbul deepens the tension and conflict with Russia.

Masked pro-Russian activists haul down the Ukrainian flag from the top of another government building in eastern Ukraine, Monday.

Kharkiv’s mayor is shot in another sign of Ukraine’s rising tension

Conflict & Justice

Kidnappings and shootings are adding to the tension in Ukraine. On Monday, a prominent mayor who has switched his loyalties was shot in the back and seriously wounded.