NEED TO KNOW When Dreams Become Nightmares UKRAINE When Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine shortly before it invaded the country in late February,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Long Road UKRAINE Just over six months after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Sébastien Roblin at NBC News was thinking that Ukraine’s current counteroffensive to...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Great Awakening EUROPE When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the former Soviet republic of Ukraine late last month, he claimed he was pushing back against aggressive...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW When Spring Comes RUSSIA/ UKRAINE As the US and Germany send advanced armored vehicles to help Ukraine’s cause, Russia has lost almost half of its battle tanks,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Boogeymen UKRAINE Ukraine’s Azov Battalion started off eight years ago as a group of far-right activists who launched attacks against pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Running Out the Clock UKRAINE/ RUSSIA Near the front line in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian soldiers detail how two years of fighting their giant neighbor, Russia,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Coming Together, Coming Apart UKRAINE It’s been two months since Russia invaded Ukraine to push back against alleged NATO encroachments and bring back into the fold an...
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