Ukraine

WATCH: Senate Republicans criticize Biden’s refusal to transfer Poland’s fighter planes to Ukraine

By Associated Press

Senate Republicans are criticizing the Biden administration's refusal to facilitate the transfer Poland's Soviet-era fighter planes to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion.

U.S. colleges cut programs, financial ties with Russia

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Colleges across the U.S. are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.

WATCH: State Department spokesman Ned Price holds news briefing amid ongoing crisis in Ukraine

By News Desk and Associated Press

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its third week, with Russian forces continuing to bombard major cities and desperate civilians hoping to escape through agreed-upon safe corridors.

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.

WATCH: VP Harris addresses possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine with Poland’s President Duda

By Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is embracing calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of civilians, including a maternity hospital.

WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds news briefing

By Associated Press

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the U.S. position delivering aircraft to a besieged Ukraine.

Deadly Russian attack on Ukrainian hospital draws outrage as peace talks stall

By Evgeniy Maloletka, Mstyslav Chernov, Associated Press

A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people drew outrage, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war crime.

WATCH: Senate Energy committee holds hearing on ‘use of energy as a tool and a weapon’

By Associated Press

On Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved legislation that would ban Russian oil imports to the United States, an effort to put into law the restrictions announced by President Joe Biden in response to the escalating war in Ukraine.

U.S. inflation hits new 40-year high, jumping 7.9 percent over past year

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9 percent over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come.

Vice President Harris endorses call for war crimes probe of Russia over invasion of Ukraine

By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is embracing calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of civilians, including a maternity hospital.