Ukraine

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.

The Group of Seven leading economies have warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries. They said urgent measures are needed to unblock stores of grain that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine. In a statement Saturday at the end of a three-day meeting on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, the...

Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks. Officials say Moscow’s troops are pulling back from Kharkiv in the northeast while launching mortar, artillery and airstrikes in the eastern province of Donetsk. According to Ukraine’s defense minister, the country is “entering a new, long-term phase of the war” after more than 11...

Two firefighters with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District are back home in California after spending three weeks lending their skills to a humanitarian aid mission in Ukraine.

An East Bay firefighter is back and ready for fire season in California after spending three weeks in Ukraine lending a hand with humanitarian aid. Alyssa Goard reports.

Two Sutter Health nurses from San Francisco recently flew overseas to help refugees fleeing Ukraine as the war drags on.

Two Sutter Health nurses from San Francisco recently flew overseas to help refugees fleeing Ukraine as the war drags on.

A South Bay medical practice has joined the front lines when it comes to the relief efforts in war-torn Ukraine.

In the dim basement, where heavily pregnant women must bend low to avoid the water pipes, there is a delivery table in case a baby comes amid the air raid sirens.

Experts expected Putin to declare war on Ukraine Monday, or perhaps announce that Russia had won the war, with recognition of a breakaway, Russia-friendly government. Neither happened. NBC Bay Area’s Political Analyst Larry Gerston explains.

Jill Biden spent several hours in Ukraine, driving from the border with Slovakia to a town 10 minutes away to see first lady Olena Zelenska on Mother’s Day. Biden is the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during the war, while Zelenska’s public appearance was her first since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The first ladies met at a...

Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Greater Good Charities is on an international mission to help rescue pets abandoned by fleeing refugees.

Russia’s military has launched a string of attacks on Ukraine’s railway network, which has been vital for moving Western arms to Ukrainian forces, evacuating refugees and exporting food.

A Bay Area Caviar Company says its getting hateful comments, letters over inaccurate assumptions about its name.

A Bay Area Caviar company says it’s been receiving hateful messages recently, fueled by misperceptions about the company’s name. Alyssa Goard reports.

Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill that represented the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said, just as a convoy carrying scores of civilians evacuated from the plant over the weekend reached the relative safety of a Ukrainian-controlled city.

So far House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking United States official to make the trip to Ukraine since Russia invaded. NBC Bay Area political analyst Larry Gerston breaks down the importance of her delegation’s visit.

Russian soccer teams were kicked out of the Women’s European Championship, the next men’s Champions League and qualifying for the 2023 Women’s World Cup by UEFA on Monday.

Five-year-old Karina Andreiko wasn’t hurt in the war in Ukraine. In some ways, she was saved because of it.

Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, is visited Ukraine while in Europe on a relief mission.