Iryna Korshun, 38, looks out the window in her apartment in Edina, Minn. Korshun and her two children were sponsored to the U.S. through the Uniting for Ukraine parole program, while Korshun's husband is fighting on the frontlines in the Ukrainian military. Tim Evans/for NPR hide caption
Stanislava Lisovska, 40, (center left) stands at her husband Andrii Ruban's casket (who was killed at 41 years old) with soldiers from his unit, as they bury him in Odesa in February. Ruban a new father when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but like many in those early days, he volunteered to join the army and had been fighting ever since. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. The two men spoke Tuesday on matters including a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their Oval Office last Friday. Zelenskyy left the contentious meeting without a deal. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
From left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Not invited: anyone from Ukraine. Evelyn Hockstein/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
First responders work the scene following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
A man walks down a war-ravaged street in Pokrovsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Dec. 19, 2024. Behind him is the hotel Druzhba, which was destroyed by a Russian missile last summer. Pokrovsk was once home to 60,000 people. Now it's largely abandoned, with Russian troops active within a mile of the outskirts. Anton Shtuka for NPR hide caption
Life goes on at Odesa's beaches this summer, where the waves wash away worries, if only for a moment. Simona Supino hide caption
Firefighters extinguish a fire after a rocket hit a building of a higher education institution in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on Monday. Vasilisa Stepanenko/AP hide caption
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Andrii Denysenko, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp," stands by Odyssey, an 800-kilogram (1,750-pound) ground drone prototype, at a cornfield in northern Ukraine on June 28, 2024. Facing manpower shortages and uneven international assistance, Ukraine is counting heavily on innovation at home to halt Russia’s incremental but pounding advance in the east. Anton Shtuka/AP hide caption
Ksenia Karelina, also known by the last name of Khavana, sits in a defendant’s cage in a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on June 20, 2024. The dual Russian-U.S. citizen was arrested on treason charges in Yekaterinburg in February after returning from Los Angeles to visit relatives. The charges reportedly stem from her $51 donation to a U.S. charity that helps Ukraine. File photo/AP hide caption
In this photo issued by the Hungarian prime minister's press office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hold a meeting in Kyiv on Tuesday. Zoltan Fischer/Hungarian PM's Press Office/MTI/AP hide caption
Alexandra Prokopenko poses at a marathon event back in Russia. She used to run in Moscow's Meshchersky Park all the time: It was her favorite place in the city. But she's doubtful she will see it again, at least for the near future. Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she left her country, along with hundreds of thousands of her peers. Alexandra Prokopenko hide caption
A woman carrying a bucket walks along the road near Bakhmut, on Nov. 27. As temperatures drop, Ukrainians worked to restore power, heat and water supplies after Russian strikes hit key infrastructure. Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man hugs a Ukrainian soldier as local residents gather to celebrate the liberation of Kherson on Sunday. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Wednesday. Putin introduced martial law in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. Sergei Ilyin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday. It was the second Monday in a row of Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital. Roman Hrytsyna/AP hide caption
The building housing Mykolaiv's regional government, bombed early in the war, lies in ruins on Aug. 11. Governor Vitaliy Kim says he knew he was the target "because it was my window." Thirty-seven of his colleagues died in the bombing. Joanna Kakissis/NPR hide caption
Staff and volunteers load a camel into a vehicle to be evacuated from Feldman Ecopark in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 4. The zoo has been shelled repeatedly during the Russian invasion. At least five staff or volunteers were killed and nearly 100 animals at the zoo died as of April. Carol Guzy for NPR hide caption
Ukrainian soldiers stand over bags containing the remains of exhumed bodies at a mass grave site in Izium, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Local residents gather on Tuesday to receive humanitarian aid in Balakliia, a town recently liberated by the Ukrainian military as part of its counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/NurPhoto via Reuters hide caption
Destroyed armored vehicles litter the road in Balakliya, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on Saturday. Ukrainian forces said recaptured key towns and villages in the country's northeast. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izium, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said its swift offensive took significant ground back from Russia. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption