Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Lavrov declines to comment on civilian deaths in Ukraine
Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymr Zelensk...
Mar 03, 2022
Many nonwhite refugees fleeing Ukraine caught say they’re in limbo at borders amid reports of discrimination
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As hundreds of thousands fled Ukraine, some immigrants and students of color fleeing Russian attacks reported being stuck in limbo at the borders. Adeyemo Abimbole, a Nigerian st...
Mar 03, 2022
US documenting Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians but stopping short of calling them war crimes
Getty Images/Stock Photo(WASHINGTON) -- Russia is hitting civilian targets in Ukraine, killing innocent people and destroying hospitals, schools and critical infrastructure like running water, el...
Mar 02, 2022
Fighting around Ukraine's nuclear plants raises global concerns
Getty Images/Stock Photo(NEW YORK) -- As skirmishes broke out around Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, heated words were exchanged Wednesday during a meeting of the United Nations Environment Progra...
Mar 02, 2022
Families torn apart amid mass exodus from Ukraine face uncertain future
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When 25-year-old Yulia Yemelianenko crossed the border from Lviv, Ukraine into Poland earlier this week, she broke down in tears. “I cried a lot,” she told ABC N...
Mar 02, 2022
Extremists harass minority refugees arriving in Poland from Ukraine, witnesses report
Getty Stock/Kutay Tanir(NEW YORK) -- As Ukrainians flee across Europe amid the onslaught of attacks from Russia in Ukraine, non-white refugees have faced discrimination from extremist groups patr...
Mar 02, 2022
Ukrainian refugees may face humanitarian crisis, advocates say
Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Since Russia invaded Ukraine last week, an estimated 660,000 refugees have fled to other countries -- with the number only expected to grow. T...
Mar 02, 2022
NATO's Article 5 could pull the US and its allies further into the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Caspar Benson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Joe Biden repeatedly has said the United States will not be sending troops to fight Russia in Ukraine, but vowed that the U.S. would defend its NATO a...
Mar 02, 2022
Prince William and Kate go on royal walkabout in Wales
Karwai Tang/WireImage(LONDON) -- Prince William and Kate, the duke and duchess of Cambridge, went on a royal walkabout in Wales on St. David’s Day -- a day to celebrate the patron saint of Wales...
Mar 02, 2022
Where Ukrainian refugees are heading
Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least 677,243 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries since Russian forces invaded the eastern European country on Fe...
Mar 02, 2022