Ukraine Russia Crisis

A Ukrainian deputy prime minister overseeing the country’s push to join the European Union says she’s “100%” certain all 27 EU nations will approve making Ukraine a candidate for membership in the bloc.

Charles, Prince of Wales traveled to Romania’s capital on Wednesday to visit refugees, mostly women and children, that have found safety in the Eastern European country after fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine.

When Oksana Skrynyk signed up for the Life Time Chicago Spring Half Marathon, she left a brief registration declaration: “I will run this marathon for my home country, Ukraine.”

First Lady Jill Biden visited Ukrainian refugee students at a Romanian public school on day two of her four-day overseas trip to Romania and Slovakia on Saturday

Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America.

The war in Ukraine has led to some remarkable profiles of humanity – including a love story spanning several continents.

A Ukrainian woman who fled the violence in her country with her two children is settling into her new life in suburban Prospect Heights, and Natalie Martinez has more on her story.

The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, an agency official says

The group has been providing food, clothing and counseling to families around the clock.

President Biden visited a refugee camp in Warsaw, Poland and called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a butcher”

An American family is showing support to the people of Ukraine through a radio program they produce from their home in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Speaking from the NATO Summit in Brussels on Thursday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia. “NATO has never been more united than it is today. Putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he intended to have as a consequence of going into Ukraine.”

As support for Ukraine builds in Chicago with continued signs of solidarity, Riot Fest has joined in on fundraising efforts for the country.

Many businesses have pulled out of Russia in protest of the invasion of Ukraine, but some Western companies have not heeded the international and domestic calls to limit their dealings in the country

After two weeks of watching news coverage of the Russian invasion, Dema Kovalenko said , he couldn’t stand by any longer and booked a flight to Europe. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

From businesses making donations to community members raising awareness, people in the Chicago area are showing support for Ukraine in a number of ways. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Hundreds of businesses have pulled out of Russia to response to the invasion of Ukraine. See where these companies stand with doing business in Russia.

While President Joe Biden is going after Russian oligarchs’ bank accounts, Illinois gambling regulators are going after their sports betting markets.

Chicagoans, along with a growing number of Americans across the country, are volunteering to head to Ukraine to join the ongoing fight against Russia.

Less than a week after she fled the fighting in Ukraine, Sofia Kolesnyk is safe with friends in a Chicago suburb, keeping up with the news from her homeland as fighting intensifies and the death toll among civilians increases. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the story.