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By Natasha Bertrand, Vasco Cotovio, Jennifer Hansler and Jim Sciutto, CNN The US and NATO believe that Belarus could “soon” join Russia in its war against Ukraine, US and NATO officials tell CNN, and that the country is already taking steps to do so. It is increasingly “likely” that Belarus will enter the conflict, a

By Stephanie Halasz and George Ramsay, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in a maximum-security jail, according to Russian state-owned news agency Tass. A prominent Kremlin critic, Navalny was convicted on fraud charges by Moscow’s Lefortovo court over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny, 45, is

By Brad Lendon, CNN A Russian bomber fired three hypersonic missiles at the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Monday night, Ukrainian officials said, as part of a barrage that leveled a number of civilian targets including hotels and a shopping mall. It is not the first time Moscow has deployed its Kinzhal hypersonic

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CNN By AnneClaire Stapleton, Ivan Watson, Khrystyna Bondarenko and Tom Booth, CNN Dmytro and Tania Shvets spent the first 23 days of the war hiding in their cellar in Mariupol with their 7-year-old daughter, Vlada, and their parents. The family managed to escape the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday, but their parents stayed behind. Having

By AnneClaire Stapleton, Ivan Watson, Khrystyna Bondarenko and Tom Booth, CNN Dmytro and Tania Shvets spent the first 23 days of the war hiding in their cellar in Mariupol with their 7-year-old daughter, Vlada, and their parents. The family managed to escape the besieged Ukrainian city on Thursday, but their parents stayed behind. Having fled

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By Helen Regan, Travis Caldwell, Amy Woodyatt, George Ramsay and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

By Jack Guy, Olga Voitovych, Tim Lister and Victoria Butenko, CNN A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Romanchenko’s death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute in a series of tweets. Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and

By Eliza Mackintosh and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — When Serhii woke up to news reports that a bomb had flattened Mariupol’s Drama Theater, where hundreds of people had been sheltering, he couldn’t breathe. His wife and their two daughters were inside. A day before the attack, the 56-year-old editor, who lives in

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Just days after her release from detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe took to the microphones to remind the world that the end of her almost six-year ordeal shouldn’t be marked as a mission accomplished. “I believe that the meaning of freedom is never going to be complete as to such time

CNN By George Ramsay, CNN At least 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion less than a month ago, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday. That figure accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s population, which was calculated at 44 million by

By George Ramsay, CNN At least 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion less than a month ago, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday. That figure accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s population, which was calculated at 44 million by the

CNN By George Ramsay, CNN At least 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion less than a month ago, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said Sunday. That figure accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s population, which was calculated at 44 million by

By Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Laine, Maryna Marukhnych and Natalie Gallón, CNN This is the final bus out of the last position Ukraine holds on the road to Kherson — the first and only major city Russia has taken. Villagers have standing room only, while the elderly have been rushed into a van. “Grandpa, we are here,” shouts the daughter of one local, Viktor, from the bus doorway, as

CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Brice Laine, Maryna Marukhnych and Natalie Gallón, CNN This is the final bus out of the last position Ukraine holds on the road to Kherson — the first and only major city Russia has taken. Villagers have standing room only, while the elderly have been rushed into a van. “Grandpa, we are here,” shouts the daughter of one local, Viktor, from the bus doorway,

CNN By Vasco Cotovio, Fred Pleitgen and Byron Blunt, CNN The sound of rockets launching in the distance breaks the silence of an otherwise quiet morning in Kyiv. “That’s us, we’re attacking Russian positions close to Hostomel,” a Ukrainian soldier says, as the shots fire in a synchronized rhythm. In this particular instance, the rockets

By Vasco Cotovio, Fred Pleitgen and Byron Blunt, CNN The sound of rockets launching in the distance breaks the silence of an otherwise quiet morning in Kyiv. “That’s us, we’re attacking Russian positions close to Hostomel,” a Ukrainian soldier says, as the shots fire in a synchronized rhythm. In this particular instance, the rockets the