Claire Harbage

Oksana Dudar, left, the wife of Viktor Dudar, hugs her mother-in-law at her husband's funeral Tuesday in Lviv, Ukraine. Viktor was a soldier who was killed by Russian forces. A U.S. defense analyst estimates more than 1,500 were killed in the first five days of the war. The Ukrainian military tells NPR it isn't disclosing the number of soldiers lost in the fight with Russia.

Hundreds gather to honor fallen Ukrainian soldiers

Arezou Rezvani

The first of Ukraine's fallen soldiers are starting to come home. Two men were killed on the front lines in Russia's war on Ukraine. Hundreds gathered to mourn at their funeral on Tuesday.

Services at Church of St. George on Sunday in Lviv, Ukraine.

Some of Ukraine's Orthodox churches want to break away from their Russian patriarch

Lauren Frayer

At church, Ukrainians pray for an end to war. But a rift is forming: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Moscow's invasion. Some in Ukraine want to break away from his leadership.

Two Ukrainian girls in foster care look out the window of a home they are now sharing with a Polish foster family in Bilgoraj, Poland. More than 1.5 million Ukrainians — many of them children — have fled since the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian children and families are being taken in by Polish families

Claire Harbage

Many Polish families are offering temporary lodging for Ukrainians who have fled. Some Poles are fostering Ukrainian children who had been living at a home for orphaned or neglected children.

People arrive in Poland who have just crossed the border by bus from Ukraine at the Korczowa-Krakovets crossing.

Ukrainians are fleeing to Poland, but some are returning home for their families

Claire Harbage

Thousands of Ukrainians have arrived in Poland after the country declared its borders open to refugees escaping the Russian incursion. But some are returning to Ukraine to find family or to fight.

The boundary between Ukraine and Russian-annexed Crimea.

On the Crimean borderland, Ukrainians define their identity

Kat Lonsdorf

In the borderlands near Crimea, there is a war for the hearts and minds of Ukrainian citizens.

People walk past an administrative building, in the Dniprovskyi residential district of Kyiv, underneath which is a bunker from the 1980s.

Bar, bookstore or bunker? Kyiv residents wonder where to shelter in case of war

Daniel Estrin

An underground world in the Ukraine capital is made up of Soviet-era bomb shelters, bunkers and basements. A potential Russian attack threatens to put the bygone shelter system to the test.

A woman walks towards the only crossing right now between the rest of Ukraine and the northernmost occupied territory, manned by guards on both sides who check documents in Stanytsia Luhanska.

The world worries of a Russian attack. But for these Ukrainians, war is already here

Kat Lonsdorf

NPR travelled towards the "temporarily occupied territories" on the Ukraine-Russia border, where the people who live there are in limbo – cut off from both Ukraine and Russia, cut off from the world.

The Western megadrought is revealing America's 'lost national park'

Nathan Rott

A famed desert landscape has reemerged as water levels in Lake Powell reservoir have fallen to record lows. It's raising questions about the future of this oasis and water in the American West.

From Valley of the Gods to an ancient Anasazi site, see the grandeur of Bears Ears

Claire Harbage

The Biden administration is restoring the original boundaries of two large national monuments in Utah - Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.

Wildfire Risk Is Growing Everywhere, Even As More Americans Move Into Harm's Way

Nathan Rott

There's a history of wildfire across America, a threat made worse by the warming climate. And more people are moving to fire-prone areas without realizing the danger.