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A 2-year-old Afghan boy has been reunited with his parents in the U.S. after having been stuck in Afghanistan for nine months, his father told NBC News.

First lady Jill Biden has thanked U.S. troops deployed to Romania, where they are serving as a check against Russian aggression.

Tech leaders in Northern Virginia are playing an important role in helping hundreds of Ukrainian refugees resettle in Europe.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on some local technology leaders are helping Ukrainian refugees resettle in Denmark.

The stream of Ukrainian refugees into Poland has slowed in recent weeks, but many more could come if hostilities in Ukraine escalate.

News4’s Tommy McFly explains a fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees that involves dropping bean bags from a plane and trying to land them in a 4-foot wading pool.

The United States has sharply increased the number of Ukrainians admitted to the country at the Mexican border as even more refugees fleeing the Russian invasion follow the same circuitous route

With President Joe Biden’s administration planning to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to the U.S., resettlement agencies are staring down the monumental task of welcoming more refugees amid an affordable housing crisis and a lack of landlords willing to rent to them.

With President Joe Biden’s administration planning to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to the U.S., resettlement agencies are staring down the monumental task of welcoming more refugees amid an affordable housing crisis and a lack of landlords willing to rent to them.

As the number of people leaving Ukraine for points west slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.

A D.C. area chef hopped on a plane to help support refugees from Ukraine. News4’s Tommy McFly spoke with Chef David Guas about his efforts to feed them in Poland.

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

Four weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian military efforts have failed to capture a major Ukrainian city.

As Russian forces continue to bombard Ukrainian cities, civilians trying to escape the fighting are finding the journey more difficult.

Russia’s military did not expect the resistance it would face from Ukrainian fighters, says former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state Joel Rubin. “The Ukrainian people are incredibly brave and strong, and they are staring down a very large army and putting it in its place,” Rubin said.

As millions of women and children flee across Ukraine’s borders in the face of Russian aggression, concerns are growing over how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from being targeted by human traffickers or becoming victims of other forms of exploitation.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

A new NBCLX/YouGov poll on refugees shows stark contrasts in attitudes toward refugees from Ukraine compared to other war-torn areas of the world like Afghanistan and Syria. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joined LX News to talk about the data on Americans’ attitudes toward welcoming refugees.

As more than 2 million refugees from Ukraine begin to scatter throughout Europe and beyond, some carry valuable witness evidence to build a case for potential war crimes

Within two days, workers in Rzeszow, Poland transformed one floor of a mall into a shelter with 800 beds for Ukrainian refugees. The facility has doctors onsite to help with prescriptions, three meals a day, showers, laundry and a place to organize and distribute donated clothes and other necessities. Jay Gray shows you what people are doing to help Ukrainians.