Jim Heintz

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Reporter with The Associated Press

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NATO foreign ministers wait for the start of the North Atlantic Council during an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Fire doused at Ukraine nuclear plant, no radiation escaped

No radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said on Friday, March 4, 2022, as Russian forces pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite global condemnation.

News, Politics | March 4th 2022

In this photo taken from video on Mar. 3, 2022, a view from the window of a Russian military helicopter as it flies over an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) Uncredited

More than a million people pour out of Ukraine as Russian attacks continue

The exodus out of Ukraine is the swiftest this century, the United Nations said Thursday, as Moscow said it was ready for more talks to end fighting even as its forces pressed their assaults on the country’s second-largest city and two strategic seaports.

News, Politics | March 3rd 2022

A journalist walks inside a damaged gym following shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia bombs urban centres; Biden says Putin will ‘pay’

Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror campaign, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that if the Russian leader didn’t “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country.

News, Politics | March 2nd 2022

This handout photo released by Ukrainian Emergency Service shows a view of the damaged City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russian bombs hammer Ukraine’s Kharkiv and tanks push toward Kyiv

Russian shelling pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — as Ukraine’s embattled president accused Moscow of resorting to terror tactics to press Europe’s largest ground war in generations.

News, Politics | March 1st 2022