Russia-Ukraine: A new humanitarian crisis in the making
Russia-Ukraine: A new humanitarian crisis in the making
On Thursday, Day 1 of the first major war in Europe in decades, the Russian military began its attack before sunrise with the terrifying thud of artillery strikes on airports and military installations all over Ukraine. It spurred tens of thousands of Ukrainians to flee by car or bus or on foot on Thursday toward the far-western part of the country
Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, at dusk on Thursday, February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The square was the site of protests in 2014 that toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych