Mar 21 They were covering the Russian attack on Mariupol, then these journalists became the hunted By Mstyslav Chernov, Associated Press A team of Associated Press journalists were documenting the agony of Mariupol from inside the Ukrainian city when they learned their names were on a Russian list. Continue reading
Mar 21 Ukraine defiant, rejects Russian demand for surrender of forces in Mariupol By Cara Anna, Associated Press Ukrainian officials have defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags in exchange for safe passage. Continue reading
Mar 20 Amid new bombings, Ukraine now seen as a war of attrition By Cara Anna, Associated Press Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering about 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where refugees described how “battles took place over every street,” weeks into a devastating siege. Continue reading
Mar 19 Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help By Cara Anna, Associated Press The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war's worst suffering, would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside major cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch 13:19 Zelensky implores Congress to increase aid as ‘scenes of horror’ continue across Ukraine By Jane Ferguson, Volodymyr Solohub, Alexis Cox As President Zelensky addressed Congress Wednesday and asked for more aid President Biden called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" for the assault on Ukraine. This as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the fighting, especially in Ukraine's south. Now… Continue watching
Mar 16 Encircled by Russian troops, Mariupol residents have ‘nowhere to run’ By Mystyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Associated Press Each airstrike and shell that relentlessly pounds Mariupol – about one a minute at times in recent days – drives home the curse of a geography that has put the city squarely in the path of Russia’s domination of Ukraine. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 5:09 Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians remain trapped in Mariupol amid Russian siege By Nick Schifrin, Teresa Cebrian Aranda While Russian troops push closer to Kyiv, they are making the most progress in southern Ukraine. Moscow claimed to have seized all the area around the city of Kherson and continued to starve and strangle the city of Mariupol on… Continue watching
Mar 15 Russia bombards Kyiv, ending a relative calm in Ukraine’s capital By Andrea Rosa, Associated Press Russia is stepping up its bombardment of Kyiv, devastating an apartment house and other buildings. Continue reading
Mar 10 Under Russian siege and heavy shelling, Ukraine’s Mariupol city uses mass grave By Evgeniy Maloletka, Associated Press With bodies piling up in Russia's nine-day siege of Mariupol, the port city of 430,000 in southeastern Ukraine, local authorities are hurrying to bury the dead in a mass grave. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 5:15 How civilians caught in the Ukraine conflict are coping By PBS News Hour Fierce fighting has resumed between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in Eastern Ukraine, killing civilians on both sides. Meanwhile, scheduled peace talks were abandoned when rebel delegates refused to participate. Judy Woodruff talks to Shaun Walker of The Guardian about… Continue watching