In Ukraine

US Amb to UN: ‘We’re hopeful’ the Black Sea Grain Initiative can be revived

August 8, 2023Ukraine

Since Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, its troops have been attacking Ukraine’s ports, destroying 220,000 metric tons of grain in the past week alone. But US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the grain deal could be brought back to life.

US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet smiles ahead of a meeting in Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

America’s top priority is to help Ukraine ‘defend itself’ as a sovereign nation, Blinken adviser says

February 2, 2023Ukraine

Funeral workers burry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body, who died in Bucha during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine

Digital clues and the stories Ukraine’s mass graves tell

October 19, 2022Conflict & Justice

Students at the Warsaw Ukrainian School (SzkoUA), in Warsaw, Poland, sing during an English lesson.

‘Their lives collided with war’: Ukrainian refugees in Poland open their own schools

April 28, 2022Ukraine

A woman walks past a destroyed tank in the town of Trostsyanets, Ukraine, Monday, March 28, 2022.

West remains divided on sanctions, weapons to Ukraine, former amb to Russia says

March 28, 2022Ukraine

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged city center after Russian air raid in Chernigiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

Russia’s invasion in Ukraine ‘is far from done,’ retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman says

March 3, 2022Ukraine

Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who worked in the White House as the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, joined The World’s host Carol Hills to discuss the current outlook and specific military strategies used by both Ukraine and Russia.

A protester holding a "Ukraine" scarf poses during the "march against capitulation" on Oct. 14, 2019, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine remains split over how to achieve peace in contested Donbas region

November 5, 2019

Several polls show that a large part of Ukraine objects to most of the specific compromises mentioned in the 2015 Minsk agreement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy could now attempt to fulfill. Ukrainians support a compromise to end the war, polls show — just not any compromise.

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