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Lawmakers warn of high stakes as Biden prepares for call with Xi

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez warned Thursday of high stakes as President Biden prepares to call Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

March 17, 2022

Blinken says U.S. officials documenting evidence for possible Russian war crimes

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said U.S. officials are "documenting and evaluating" evidence of potential war crimes by Russia and President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine to assist international investigations and "hold those responsible accountable."

March 17, 2022

Sen. Lindsey Graham doubles down on calling for Putin’s ouster

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday repeated his call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be "taken out, one way or the other," after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal to Congress for additional U.S. support.

March 16, 2022

Zelenskyy’s powerful plea for help moves Congress, puts Biden on the spot to step up aid

Bipartisan pressure intensified Wednesday on President Biden to act more decisively in the Russian-Ukraine war after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a powerful speech to Congress pleading for more military firepower.

March 16, 2022

Lawmakers press Biden to help send MiG fighter jets after Zelenskyy’s address to Congress

Lawmakers stepped up pressure on President Biden to help get fighter jets to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's powerful appeal to Congress on Wednesday for more U.S. military support.

March 16, 2022

Zelenskyy in speech to Congress urges U.S. for no-fly zone, aircraft to battle Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a livestreamed video to Congress on Wednesday pleaded for the U.S. to help him battle Russia's bombardment of his country with a no-fly zone or military equipment to protect Ukraine's skies.

March 16, 2022

Foreign fighters looking to join the fight in Ukraine find hurdles, seek their own terms

LVIV, Ukraine -- Foreign fighters are flooding the battlefields of Ukraine as the war entering its third week shows little sign of abating.

March 14, 2022

Western Ukraine, once a safe haven, now a Russian target

KRAKOW, Poland -- Lviv residents awoke Sunday to find war at their doorstep, with a major Russian assault pounding a key Ukrainian military facility.

March 13, 2022

Russia hits Ukrainian military installation near Polish border, 35 dead as conflict escalates

KRAKOW, Poland -- Russia attacked a key military base just outside the once-safe city of Lviv in western Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least 35 and wounding more than 100 others as the Biden administration faced mounting pressure at home to intervene more forcefully on behalf of the embattled Ukrainians.

March 13, 2022

Ukraine musters army of citizen-hackers for info wars with Russia

LVIV, Ukraine -- From an apartment on a quiet street in Lviv in the still-unscathed western reaches of Ukraine, two childhood friends now in their early 20s have been waging their own quiet invasion deep within Russia's borders.

March 9, 2022

Lviv’s mayor pleads for international aid as refugee crush strains Ukrainian city

LVIV, Ukraine -- The mayor of Lviv on Monday called on international support as Ukraine's western bastion strains to take in floods of people fleeing advancing Russian armies across the country.

March 7, 2022

Lviv mobilizes as Ukraine’s key Western fallback

LVIV, Ukraine -- An art gallery downtown is now a makeshift factory for camouflage netting that will soon be sent to the front lines, and lots on the outskirts of this city are being used for the mass production of molotov cocktails.

March 6, 2022

On NATO’s eastern flank, subtle and not-so-subtle reminders of the war next door

RZESZOW, Poland -- The small coffee shops, bars and cafes that line the central square in Rzeszow, Poland still bustle with foreign tourists and students from the local university.

March 3, 2022

For those closest to war, a sense of kinship, duty emerges in the struggle

PRZEMYSL, Poland -- Polina Makarova said she made the most difficult decision of her life when she awoke early Feb. 24 to the thud of explosions near her home in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.

March 2, 2022

Unlikely volunteers step up for Ukrainians fleeing the war

WARSAW, Poland -- Johnathon Vsetecka said he has been running on pure adrenaline since Russia mounted its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last week.

February 28, 2022

Poland takes in most refugees, leads global protests against Russian war on Ukraine

WARSAW -- A sea of protesters gathered before the Russian Embassy in Warsaw over the weekend as anti-war demonstrations broke out in cities around the world.

February 27, 2022

U.S. volunteers evacuating Americans from Ukraine

A non-profit group is conducting a rescue operation for nearly two dozen American citizens in Ukraine, the group said Thursday.

February 24, 2022

Schiff calls for dramatic escalation to sanctions regime against Russia

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday called on President Biden to "dramatically escalate" sanctions to penalize Russia for "this act of naked aggression by the Kremlin dictator."

February 24, 2022

Sen. John Cornyn warns of new era of division in Europe

Sen. John Cornyn on Thursday warned of a reemerging East-West divide in Europe, citing an analysis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the history of West's relationship with Moscow under President Vladimir Putin.

February 24, 2022

Rep. Michael McCaul says the time for diplomacy with Russia is over

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday that the "time for diplomacy is over" following Russia's large-scale coordinated attack on Ukraine.

February 24, 2022