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Wednesday

Editions of Peremoha sit on a table near the archives. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A newspaper near Ukraine's border with Russia watches for freed POWs

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Thursday

Serhii Chaus, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar, arrives at a bread delivery location on the outskirts of town. Chaus goes daily into the embattled town to deliver supplies and meet residents who choose to stay there as Russian forces are approaching the area. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A mayor in Ukraine aids his town's few remaining people, as Russia closes in

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Wednesday

Students leave the underground school built in a Kharkiv subway station to board a bus home. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Ukraine's Kharkiv moves classrooms underground so kids survive Russian attacks

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Saturday

Clockwise from top left: lawyer Liudmyla Lysenko in Kyiv; restaurant co-owner Iryna Savchenko in Kramatorsk; tour guide Artem Vasyuta in Odesa; homemaker Nataliya Kucherenko in the Sumy region; obstetrician Iryna Kulbach in Dnipro; and architect Max Rozenfeld in Kharkiv. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Friday

Wednesday

Yulya Dmytrieeva and her husband, Vadym, who have been together for over a decade, embrace in the snow in Sloviansk. They will spend a few days together while he has a break from the trenches on the front lines. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Ukrainian soldiers' valentines arrive by 'train of love'

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Wednesday

Olha Bilianska's husband was mobilized two years ago. Even after being injured, he is being redeployed. "Some people still believe that this war won't get them," Bilianska says. "It will get them. This war is cruel." Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Saturday

Ukrainians hit the slopes at a ski resort in Kyiv. Skiing and snowboarding offer locals a bit of joy, despite frequent missile attacks. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Between bombings, Ukrainians find fun (and a sense of normalcy) at a Kyiv ski resort

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Saturday

Sushi rolls with cream cheese, a popular ingredient in Ukrainian sushi, are served at Island Sushi in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Sunday

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Wednesday

Utility workers north of Lyman, Ukraine, work on restringing electrical poles in an effort to brace the country's energy system against another winter of expected Russian attacks. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Ukraine is trying to keep its lights on this winter. Russia aims to turn them off

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Wednesday

The NICU at Galilee Medical Center was the first part of the hospital to move underground. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Hospitals in Israel move underground to keep working amid rockets from Lebanon

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Friday

Ibrahim Alfarany has been staying at Al-Istiqlal University for several weeks. He usually works and lives near a store south of Tel Aviv, where he stocks vegetables for a few weeks at a time, and travels back to Gaza. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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As Israel forces workers from Gaza back, thousands more remain stuck in the West Bank

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Monday

People walk through the ruins of Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank that was hit last week by an Israeli airstrike. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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In the West Bank city of Jenin, Israeli raids and strikes leave Palestinians wary

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Friday

Men working with a search and recovery team from the organization ZAKA look for human remains in Kibbutz Be'eri. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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New details emerge about the Hamas-led attackers who massacred Israelis

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Tuesday

Shefayim Hotel, just north of Tel Aviv, is hosting hundreds of survivors of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a community that suffered some of the most catastrophic losses in the Hamas attacks two weeks ago. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Attacked by Hamas at home, Israeli survivors find solace in a hotel

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Friday

Jacob Murungi collects water near his home in central Kenya — harvesting it from fog that forms overnight and clings to trees. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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How to harvest water from clouds of fog

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Saturday

Friday

Danilo Andres, 60, outside his home in Lahaina. The fire jumped his home and a surrounding cluster. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Their house miraculously survived the wildfire, but no longer feels like home

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

Eduard Skoryk (center) helps lift Viktor Nesterov onto an evacuation train. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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A Ukrainian rescue worker's memories are on pause as he evacuates people

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Friday

Shaimaa Ali Ahmed, 12, lost her leg at age 6 after happening upon an unexploded rocket. Yemeni children like her bear an outsized burden from the civil war, where land mines and ordnance litter the landscape. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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She's 12. A rocket took her leg. She defines the pain and resilience of Yemen

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