All Europe
- FocusEastern Europe welcomes some refugees, not others. Is it only racism?
After not helping Syrians, Eastern Europe is coming through for Ukrainian refugees. The change suggests racism, but that’s not the whole picture.
- Europe’s far-right parties admired Putin. Now they’re stranded.
Far-right political leaders in Europe are now paying the price for having cozied up to the Russian president, but their error is unlikely to prove fatal.
- Confronting war, young Ukrainians find new purpose
A pacifist who enjoyed learning to shoot. A coffee shop owner making sleeping bags. In Ukraine, war’s capacity to radically change thinking, and pursuits, is on display.
- Russia’s first homefront casualties: Reporters and the press
Russian media have been decimated by wartime censorship rules that have closed almost all independent outlets and prompted many official journalists to quit.
- First LookIn Spain’s ‘Little Ukraine,’ those fleeing war find home again
For years, Ukrainian migrants in search of job opportunities found a warm welcome in a small Spanish town. Now, as Ukrainian refugees flee the war, they’re finding shared cultural ties and an outpouring of support in this enclave abroad.
- First LookHunted in Ukraine: A reporter's view from 20 days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov is a video journalist for The Associated Press. This is his account of the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka. Mariupol is a crucial port for Ukraine located between Russia and Crimea.
- First LookBerlin volunteers open classrooms to Ukrainian refugees
As Ukrainians continue to flee abroad, more children and teenagers are trying to get back to regular routines. In Berlin, city officials and volunteers are working to establish classes to help refugees transition to their new lives and prepare for schooling in Germany.
- In Ukraine’s call to arms, foreign fighters hear cry for justice
What motivates a person to go risk life and limb fighting in Ukraine, even if they don’t have family there? For some, a sense of duty and justice.
- Difference MakerA secret town’s renewal, from radioactive cleanup to recycling jobs
Northern Estonia once fueled the USSR’s nuclear arsenal. Tõnis Kaasik cleaned up the radioactive waste and created jobs for the Russians left behind.
- First LookStill defiant: Russian dissident Navalny gets more jail time
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud, which Mr. Navalny says are politically motivated. The sentence comes as President Vladimir Putin carries out a broader crackdown on dissent.
- Can Europe give up Russian energy and still go green?
The war in Ukraine sharpened European thinking about the need to cut off Russian energy. But it may also mean a short-term cost to green goals.
- Volunteers step up to clean up France’s dirtiest city
Residents in Marseille are volunteering to clean up garbage after a recent strike, part of a broader citizen-led effort to beautify a grimy city.
- First LookTurkey says Russia and Ukraine nearing agreement on ‘critical’ issues
A deal might guarantee Ukraine’s security while keeping it outside NATO. But Russia-Ukraine rifts remain over Crimea and Donbas, Turkey's foreign minister says.
- First LookRussia steps up missile attacks. Is it now a war of attrition?
Amid fresh calls for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, some experts say Russia now has a strategy of attrition that could intensify the humanitarian crisis.
- First LookPutin rally: 'We have not had unity like this for a long time'
Russian President Vladimir Putin led a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium Friday to praise his troops fighting in Ukraine. Mr. Putin emphasized Russian troops are fighting “Nazism” to prevent “genocide,” a claim emphatically denied by leaders around the globe.
- First Look'I will stay until the end': Ukrainian women vow to return and help
Since Russian started its invasion of Ukraine, more than 3 million people have fled, a vast majority being women, children, and the elderly. But a number of Ukrainian women who had been living and working abroad are boarding trains to go back and help.
- Ukraine war divides families and exiles children. Why some stay.
Protecting home. Protecting family. Keeping families together. Russia’s war is forcing many in Ukraine to prioritize. We spoke to some in Odessa who opted to stay.
- First LookWhat female war reporters bring to the frontlines in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine stretches on, more women are among the foreign correspondents covering it. They bring unique perspectives to war reporting, traditionally male dominated, following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Martha Gellhorn and Frances FitzGerald.
- First LookMacron leads polls as he forgoes campaigning to focus on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron announced March 3 that he will run for a second term as president. Even though he has not held a campaign rally yet, he is leading the polls - about 10 percentage points ahead of far-right contender Marine Le Pen.
- Moldovans worry they may be next Putin target
Moldovans’ concern is they would be defenseless if President Putin decided to invade their tiny, pro-Western nation on Ukraine’s western flank.