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Ukrainian refugee Iryna Koshun, 38, poses for a portrait at her apartment in Edina, MN, March 8, 2025. Koshun and her two children were sponsored to the US through the Uniting for Ukraine temporary parole program, while Koshun’s husband is fighting on the frontlines in the Ukrainian military.

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

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As protections expire, Ukrainians who escaped war face an uncertain future

A U.S. immigration program allowed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to escape war. As Trump decides whether or not to renew it, recipients fear being deported.

As protections expire, Ukrainians who escaped war face an uncertain future

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A Ukrainian family finds solace in America but cannot escape heartbreak

Amira, the younger daughter in the Koliubaiev family, sits quietly by herself in Arlington, Va., on April 9. She and her mother and sister are staying with a host family after fleeing the war in Ukraine. Shuran Huang for NPR hide caption

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Ukraine invasion — explained

A Ukrainian family finds solace in America but cannot escape heartbreak

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Eka Koliubaieva and her two daughters fled to the U.S., where a Virginia couple took them in after learning about the family's plight from a Facebook post.

A Ukrainian family finds solace in America but cannot escape heartbreak

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All Wars Are Fought Twice

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All Wars Are Fought Twice

"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. This week on Throughline, we want to pause the news cycle to think about not just how war is experienced or consumed, but how it's remembered. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the past, both as people and as nations. As the world watches the war in Ukraine — and with the U.S. departure from Afghanistan still fresh — we speak with Nguyen about national memory, selective forgetting, and the refugee stories that might ultimately help us move forward.

All Wars Are Fought Twice

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A Russian editor auctioned his Nobel Prize to help Ukraine. It fetched $103.5 million

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov speaks during the auction of his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal in New York on Sunday. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Ukraine invasion — explained

A Russian editor auctioned his Nobel Prize to help Ukraine. It fetched $103.5 million

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was one of two journalists to win last year's Nobel Peace Prize. He sold his to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.

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