Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Dad speaks out after preemie twins evacuated from Kyiv in 14-hour rescue mission
Project Dynamo(NEW YORK) -- Twin Ukrainian boys who were born shortly after Russia began its attack in the country have been safely evacuated to Poland. The twins' father, Alexander Spektor, who lives...
Mar 09, 2022
South Korea elects former top prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol as next president
Getty Images/Chung Sung-Jun(NEW YORK) -- South Korea elected Yoon Suk-yeol, of the conservative People Power Party, as its 20th president on Wednesday. Yoon claimed victory in a tight race agains...
Mar 09, 2022
Inside orphanage in Ukraine, young children endure war
ABC News(LVIV, Ukraine) -- As millions of people flee Ukraine amid intensifying attacks from Russia, inside a state-run orphanage in Lviv, dozens of children remain. The children, who range in age fro...
Mar 09, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia responds to Poland offering jets to help Ukraine
Andriy Dubchak/dia images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelens...
Mar 09, 2022
95% of Putin's forces still intact, plan to surround Kyiv: Pentagon update
Alexei Nikolsky\TASS via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a sen...
Mar 08, 2022
Europe's unified welcome of Ukrainian refugees exposes 'double standard' for nonwhite asylum seekers: Experts
WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Before Russian attacks on Ukraine led to mass displacement, Europe was already grappling with the Syrian refugee crisis – an issue that had bit...
Mar 08, 2022
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine claims Russian general was killed in fighting
Andriy Dubchak / dia images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zele...
Mar 08, 2022
Moms in Poland leave strollers for Ukrainian moms crossing the border
Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, according to the head of the U.N. Refugee Agency, many of w...
Mar 08, 2022
Ukraine pleads for Western warplanes. Will the US help deliver?
Thierry Monasse/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made repeated and passionate pleas now for the U.S. and NATO to implement a 'no-fly' zone over his country and gro...
Mar 07, 2022
Where the Russia-Ukraine conflict goes from here
pop_jop/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As war in Ukraine rages on, several peace talks and increasing economic sanctions against Russia have failed thus far to stop the aggression. Ukrainians have withstoo...
Mar 07, 2022
