Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine's Prime Minister, at NPR in Washington, D.C. Mhari Shaw for NPR hide caption
Ukraine invasion — explained The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country taking over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order."
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Ukraine invasion — explained
Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine's Prime Minister, at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mhari Shaw for NPR hide caption
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Serhii Chaus, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar, arrives at a bread delivery location on the outskirts of town. Chaus goes daily into the embattled town to deliver supplies and meet residents who choose to stay there as Russian forces are approaching the area. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
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Students leave the underground school built in a Kharkiv subway station to board a bus home. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
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A Ukrainian policeman (R) walks next to 84-year-old resident Mykola (L) pushing his bicycle on a street in the frontline town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donetsk region on October 11, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Explosions are near-constant in the small town, whose buildings are scored with holes from shelling. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian emergency workers clear the debris at the site of Russia's air attack, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2024. Andriy Andriyenko/AP hide caption
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) stands with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson before presenting Sweden's NATO Instruments of Accession in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department on Thursday in Washington Jess Rapfogel/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Thursday. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions, during his press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption
Lytvynova stands near an apartment building in her Kyiv neighborhood that was damaged by multiple Russian strikes over the course of the war. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin gets off a Tu-160M strategic bomber after a flight in Kazan, Russia, on Thursday. Dmitry Azarov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption
Clockwise from top left: lawyer Liudmyla Lysenko in Kyiv; restaurant co-owner Iryna Savchenko in Kramatorsk; tour guide Artem Vasyuta in Odesa; homemaker Nataliya Kucherenko in the Sumy region; obstetrician Iryna Kulbach in Dnipro; and architect Max Rozenfeld in Kharkiv. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
People visit the graves of fallen soldiers in commemoration as citizens and families of Ukrainian servicemen who killed during Russia-Ukraine war, take part in a ceremony to honor the memory of fallen soldiers on the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the Russian-Ukrainian war, where 'rays of remembrance' are lit into the sky above the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, February 23, 2024. Pavlo Palamarchuk/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Eduard Skoryk (center) helps lift Viktor Nesterov onto an evacuation train leaving Toretsk, in eastern Ukraine, in May. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
In this photo taken Sept. 5, 2023 Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. Vladyslav Musiienko/AP hide caption
Belgian Foreign minister Hadja Lahbib and Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya meet after an Informal gathering of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the EU, organized by the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Monday 19 Feb. 2024. He served a 19-year prison sentence for 'extremism' in K-3 penal camp in Charp, he died there last Friday. Dirk Waem/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Caregiver Liliya Khodunay cuts Anna's hair in Anna's home in Milan, Italy, in February 2023. Chiara Negrello hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vice President Harris arrive at a press conference at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. Wolfgang Rattay/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In this file photo, a Ukrainian soldier sits in his position in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Aug. 18, 2023. AP Photo/Libkos/AP hide caption
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, his wife Yulia, opposition politician Lyubov Sobol and other demonstrators take part in a march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow on February 29, 2020. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A soldier meets his partner at the train station in Sloviansk. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption