Mar 01 International students, refugees from Africa and Middle East report discrimination fleeing Ukraine By Vanessa Gera, Associated Press All day long, as trains and buses bring people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carry not just Ukrainians fleeing a homeland under attack but large numbers of citizens of other countries who had made Ukraine… Continue reading
Mar 01 Zelensky calls Russia's deadly strike on center of Kharkiv a 'war crime' By Associated Press A Russia military strike on Tuesday hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least six people as it badly damaged the symbolic Soviet-era regional administration building. Continue reading
Mar 01 Russian forces step up attacks on Ukraine's civilian areas By Yuras Karmanau, Jim Heintz, Vladimir Isachenkov, Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press Ukraine’s president accused Moscow of a blatant campaign of terror and vowed: “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget.”… Continue reading
Feb 28 U.S. says it is expelling 12 Russian diplomats for engaging in espionage By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press The United States has announced it is expelling 12 members of Russia's U.N. mission, accusing them of being "intelligence operatives" engaged in espionage. Continue reading
Feb 28 WATCH: At rare U.N. Security Council session, Russia is pressed to stop war in Ukraine By Jennifer Peltz, Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Reflecting escalating global alarm, both of the U.N.'s major bodies — the 193-nation assembly and the smaller, more powerful Security Council — took the unusual step of holding simultaneous, hastily scheduled meetings on the war. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch 8:12 Ukraine resists advancing Russian forces as the West imposes tough new sanctions By Nick Schifrin, Morgan Till In less than a week since Russia began its attack on Ukraine, more than 500,000 Ukrainians have fled their nation and are now refugees. This comes as fierce fighting continues across the country, the U.S. and Europe imposed harsh new… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 6:12 USAID's Samantha Power on Europe's response to a flood of refugees By Nick Schifrin, Ali Rogin The movement of more than a half-million people out of Ukraine and into surrounding countries is creating a dire humanitarian situation. U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, who was at the Polish border Sunday, joins Nick Schifrin from… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 9:59 Why the war in Ukraine could get 'much more brutal' in the days ahead By Judy Woodruff, Dan Sagalyn Doug Lute, a retired Army lieutenant general and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Andrew Weiss, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Adam Smith, a former U.S. Treasury official who served on the National Security Council staff, join Judy… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 4:29 UN releases dire climate report highlighting rapid environmental degradation By William Brangham, Ryan Connelly Holmes, Claire Mufson, Shoshana Dubnow A new United Nations science report warned that the effects of climate change are growing faster and more severe than expected. It cited hunger, disease, poverty and other ills made worse by a warming planet and indicated the repercussions may… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 3:17 Ukraine's blue and yellow colors 'everywhere' as the world demonstrates solidarity By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet Artists, entertainers, performers and others around the world are finding ways to show their solidarity with Ukrainians during this time of crisis. The efforts range from singing to light displays to prayer and beyond. Jeffrey Brown has a look for… Continue watching