Kat Lonsdorf
Stories
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World
Georgians fear they could be next as they track the war in Ukraine
Georgia shares a border with Russia and was attacked by Russia in 2008. As Georgians follow the war in Ukraine, many feel nervous that their country could be next.
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World
Thousands of Russians are traveling to Georgia to flee their own government
More than 30,000 Russians have arrived in the country of Georgia since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russians are fleeing not war, but their own government. And they say they can't go back.
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Politics
Marie Yovanovitch writes about being a key figure in 1st Trump impeachment in memoir
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, about her new memoir called Lessons from the Edge.
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World
International and grassroots groups alike are working to get supplies into Ukraine
NPR's Ari Shapiro and Tim Mak look at humanitarian efforts in Poland and Ukraine, which involve major international organizations and small grass-roots groups to bring supplies into Ukraine.
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National
An update on the evacuation of American twins born prematurely in Ukraine
NPR's Ari Shapiro provides an update on the condition of the American twins evacuated from Ukraine earlier this week. The two were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone.
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World
How the busiest border crossing from Ukraine to Poland compares to a quieter one
The UN now says more than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine, most of them to Poland. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on the busiest and one of the most quiet border crossings in Poland.
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Europe
As Russian invasion unfolds, a Ukrainian student is in survival mode
A college student in Ukraine's Kherson region is worried after seeing that Russia had taken several towns in the area.
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World
One witness describes the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 'I woke up and heard bombing'
When 22-year-old college student Vitaliy Shutov went to bed last night, he didn't think a Russian invasion of Ukraine would actually happen. Then he woke to the sounds of explosions.
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Politics
Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia
Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. A lot has changed since then.
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World
Soviet-era bomb shelters in Kyiv are now shops, apartments and bars
As the Ukrainian capital city prepares for a possible attack by Russia, residents are wondering where to go. Many Soviet-era bomb shelters have been refurbished after decades of disuse.