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Kyiv's new reality: Russian drones by night — and now by day (opens the original)
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President Trump has confirmed his two envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, are heading to Moscow and for the first time, Kyiv, in another effort to bring about peace talks. The last week in and around Ukraine's capital has been one of constant disruption and danger. The sound of air raid sirens were once a nighttime warning. CHANG: And now they're blaring several times a day, alerting residents to incoming swarms of jet-powered drones from Russia. NPR's Joanna Kakissis reports from Kyiv. OLE
Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine's capital (opens the original)
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For the last week, Ukrainians in and around the country's capital, Kyiv, have been living through constant air raid sirens. Russia is sending wave after wave of jet-powered drones that are hitting warehouses, factories and apartment buildings every day. NPR's Joanna Kakissis is in Kyiv, and she's going to tell us more about what it's like there. Good morning, Joanna. JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: Good morning, Michel. KAKISSIS: Well, so I just got back to Kyiv after some time off, and, you know, I'm
Joanna Kakissis (opens the original)
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Joanna Kakissis leads NPR's bureau in Kyiv, coverage of Ukraine and Russia's war on the country. Since the Kyiv bureau officially opened in January 2023, she has documented the war through Ukraine's people: The citizen-spies who helped liberate their city from occupation; the talented young novelist killed in a missile strike; the small-town mayor trying to deliver aid to his besieged city; the second-graders attending classes underground in a besieged city; the ninety-year-old 'mermaid' swimmin
NPR staffers recommend their favorite nonfiction books of the year so far (opens the original)
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We get it - not everyone is into novels and fantasy and horror and romance and all of that. Maybe it's a solid dose of reality you crave when you crack open a book - history, facts, analysis. You want to learn. You're not alone, my friend. Some of our colleagues here at NPR are avid readers of nonfiction, and they have some recommendations for you from our Books We Love list. (SOUNDBITE OF VIJAY GUPTA ET AL.'S "SAANS") ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS, BYLINE: Hi. I'm Anastasia Tsioulcas. I'm a correspondent
Ukraine negotiator: 'We have the upper hand' (opens the original)
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KYIV — When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Sergiy Kyslytsya was in New York serving as Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations. That day, Kyslytsya leaned into his microphone at the U.N. and looked straight at his Russian counterpart Vasily Nebenzya. Kyslytsya did not hold back. "There is no purgatory for war criminals," he said. "They go straight to hell, ambassador." Russia's invasion severed diplomatic relations between Kyiv and Moscow. That made Kysly
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