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The farming village near the city of Kherson was taken back from Russia's occupying forces weeks ago. As CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab discovered, it's still being punished.

"It's just hard to imagine, hard to fathom, how a great nation like the United States can go on like this," said French President Emmanuel Macron.

Iran’s foreign minister sat before an audience of Western business executives and policymakers at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, fielding questions about why Iran has yet to condemn Russia for its invasion in Ukraine and why efforts to revive its nuclear deal have stalled.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pleading with the West to send multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine as soon as possible to give it a chance against the Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed hopes for global cooperation on climate change, hunger and war as dozens of climate activists demonstrated in the Swiss town of Davos.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Officials around the world are responding to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the deadliest such incident to take place in the U.S. in nearly a decade.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian leaders took to social media to stand in sympathy and solidarity with a tragedy unfolding across the world.

CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams talks with host Michael Morell about her reporting in Ukraine over the last eight years, since 2014.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to strengthen his control of southern Ukraine by giving residents of two regions a fast path to Russian citizenship.

The Russian Defense Ministry is promising to open a safe corridor to allow foreign ships to leave Black Sea ports.

The war in Ukraine is top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, with a keynote address from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Just before sunrise Feb. 24, missiles struck the capital, Kyiv. In those early hours, Russian forces targeted military infrastructure and an airport.

Just before sunrise Feb. 24, missiles struck the capital, Kyiv. In those early hours, Russian forces targeted military infrastructure and an airport.

The war in Ukraine took a starring role on the opening night of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and it has rarely been far out of frame since.

The bodies found in the basement of a collapsed apartment building were in a state of decomposition.

The bodies found in the basement of a collapsed apartment building were in a state of decomposition.

When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, it had hoped to overtake the country in a blitz lasting only days or a few weeks.

The Russian parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would allow the government to appoint new management of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities say workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.

Just last week, a Ukrainian court seized hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of assets owned by a Russian oligarch.

He said sanctions need to go further to stop Russia's aggression, including an oil embargo, blocking all of Russia's banks and cutting off trade.

He said sanctions need to go further to stop Russia's aggression, including an oil embargo, blocking all of Russia's banks and cutting off trade.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says last week’s attack on the town of Desna resulted in 87 deaths.

The international community should have supported Ukraine more back in 2014 when Russia first illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine, President Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Two high-level speakers at the World Economic Forum gathering say Afghanistan’s most urgent need is saving its economy from complete collapse.

A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian was sentenced to life in prison.

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SUNDAY, 22 MAY 2022, 18:21 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that one of his first foreign visits after Ukraine's victory in the war against Russian aggression will be to Polish cities that especially helped Ukraine.

The much-ballyhooed World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos gets underway this week after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Poland's top leader is preparing to meet with Ukraine's president to support Ukraine's goal of becoming a candidate for European Union membership.

With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate.

Russia’s war with Ukraine isn’t confined to Ukraine’s east.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy say the UN and the International Committee for the Red Cross had to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to take his corpses.

The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia’s invasion.

As the West rallies behind Ukraine in its war with Russia, Polish President Andrzej Duda has arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit.

A woman who stripped off her clothes to reveal a message written on her body has crashed the Cannes Film Festival red carpet premiere of George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devoted his nightly video address to Ukraine’s demand that Russia be held financially responsible for the damage its forces are inflicting on Ukraine.

The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.

Russia claims to have captured Mariupol in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine.

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022, 21: 41 ZELENSKYY DURING COMMUNICATION WITH UKRAINIAN STUDENTS, PHOTO FROM OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the final stage of the war is the most difficult and bloody, and he cannot yet call on Ukrainians to return from abroad.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the United States for the $40 billion aid package, which got final congressional approval.

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered.

After a nearly 2-1/2-year hiatus, the Swiss town of Davos is set to again host global elites from business, government and activist groups for the World Economic Forum.

The Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, one of the few Russian filmmakers at this year's Cannes Film Festival, says “art is always against war."

The military administration for the region that includes Melitopol has reported more actions of resistance against the Russian troops who have occupied the southern city since early in the war.

Russia says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops who doggedly defended a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an impassioned speech via video at the opening of the 75th Cannes film festival in France. He asked them to emulate Charlie Chaplin's mocking of Hitler.

The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia's invasion.

Ukraine is marrying some digital marketing tools with crowdfunding and other incentives for giving to keep global attention trained on its war efforts against the Russian invasion.

After a canceled 2020 edition and a scaled back gathering last year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday which what organizers hope will be a fully resuscitated French Riviera spectacular.

Ukraine Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said 264 fighters were evacuated from the plant, including 53 "heavily wounded."

Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman says the Russian military is holding more than 3,000 civilians from Mariupol at another former penal colony near Olenivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

The Vatican’s foreign minister is heading to Kyiv this week as the Holy See seeks to balance its concern for Ukrainians with its efforts to keep open a channel of dialogue with Russia.

The fall of Mariupol appears at hand as Ukraine is moving to abandon a sprawling steel plant where its soldiers had held out under relentless bombardment for months, which would make it the biggest city to fall into Russian hands.

Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.

First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn has lost to North Carolina state Sen. Chuck Edwards in the Republican congressional primary.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the lives of the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults.

It's unclear if the soldiers have been taken prisoner or are under the protection of the U.N., but a Ukrainian official says they would be able to return home after a prisoner exchange with Russia.

Ukrainian officials say the regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol has completed its mission.

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SUNDAY, 15 MAY 2022, 22:46 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that the invading Russian forces in Ukraine are at a standstill and their "special operation" is bankrupt. Source: Presidential address Quote from Zelenskyy: "We are preparing for new Russian attempts to advance in Donbas, to somehow intensify their movement in southern Ukraine.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says Finland and Sweden would be “important additions” to NATO.

For years, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has viewed the expansion of NATO as an existential threat that would leave Russia hemmed in with Western missiles on its doorstep. Now, Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine seems to be bringing the Russian leader’s nightmare to life, with NATO on the brink of starting its largest potential expansion in nearly two decades. After navigating the postwar era in nonalignment and neutrality, Sweden and Finland are now actively exploring ascension to the military a

The band and its song "Stefania" beat 24 other performers early Sunday in the grand final of the competition.

Ukraine said it was holding off Russian offensives Sunday in the country's east.

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has released a new music video, hours after its hit “Stefania” led it to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Fresh off his country's Eurovision win, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to one day host the song contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, as Russian troops retreated from Kharkiv.

Nearly three months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Fresh off his country's Eurovision win, a defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed early Sunday to one day host the song contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, which is almost entirely in Russian hands aside from a stalwart group of a few hundred Ukrainian fighters who continue to hold out in a steel factory. Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won the popular contest with its song “Stefania,” which has become a popular anthem among Ukrainians during the war, and its victory was a morale booster. “Our courage impresses the world, our music conquers Europe,” Zelenskyy said on Facebook.

The trip came at a time when the Senate is working to approve a nearly $40 billion package for Ukraine.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says senators who visited Ukraine on Saturday have reaffirmed that the U.S. will back Ukraine until it wins its war with Russia.

The senators travelled to Ukraine days before the Senate is expected to pass a $40 billion package of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the visit a signal of bipartisan support from the U.S. Congress. The meeting took place as Ukraine said it had forced Russian troops away from Kharkiv.

Senators John Barrasso, John Cornyn, and Susan Collins were among the group, according to a video posted on social media.

Russian forces are pulling back from Ukraine's second-largest city after weeks of heavy bombardment, the Ukrainian military says, as a battle for the country's eastern industrial heartland continues.

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has won the Eurovision Song Contest in a clear show of popular support for the war-ravaged nation that went beyond the music.

Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Russian commanders who order atrocities as "sick and incurable," as allegations of war crimes continue to mount.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said although Ukrainians are doing everything they can to drive out the Russians, “no one today can predict how long this war will last.

A series of unforced political and personal errors by GOP congressman Madison Cawthorn has brought the forces of big-name Republicans and traditional enemies to bear on his reelection bid in North Carolina.

Ukrainian and British officials say Russia suffered heavy losses when Ukrainian forces destroyed the pontoon bridge enemy troops were using to try to cross a river.

In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, a protest movement was born in Poland urging people to boycott companies that have chosen to keep operating in Russia.

Ukrainian officials say their forces took out another Russian ship in the Black Sea.

Putin's forces are flattening small towns in their bid to capture a huge chunk of eastern Ukraine. But in the cities, they'll face a well-armed, deeply entrenched resistance.

An adviser to the Mariupol mayor says Russian forces have blocked all evacuation routes out of the city.

The musicians said they were performing in Kyiv at the invitation of Ukraine's president. They played acoustic versions of U2 hits and also shared the "stage" with the Ukrainian band Antytila.

Alyona Mazurenko - Monday, 9 May 2022, 23:52 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the main topic in Moscow at the moment is the discussion on the issue of the "price" for the war waged by Russia against Ukraine.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Patron, a Jack Russel Terrier, has helped detect more than 200 explosive devices.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned peace is impossible under Russian dictatorship, saying "freedom and security will win the day, just as freedom and security triumphed over oppression, ... 77 years ago."

The tiny Jack Russell terrier is credited with detecting hundreds of Russian explosive devices since the start of the war. His other pastimes include snacking on cheese and napping at press briefings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is marking Victory Day with a speech from a grand military parade in Moscow’s Red Square as his war in Ukraine struggles.

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Sunday, 8 May 2022, 23:53 After visits to Ukraine by many international political leaders, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine has become "a full-fledged part of the free world and a united Europe" while Russia is alone in evil and hatred.

Biden met with Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, who had not been seen in public since February 24.

Biden traveled under the cloak of secrecy, becoming the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during its 10-week-old conflict with Russia.

ussia has focused its offensive in the Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting since 2014 and occupy some territory.