Joanna Kakissis

As the war in Ukraine continues, Poles are joining their nation's military and packing shooting ranges in case they need to defend Poland from Russia, despite Poland's membership in NATO.

More than 150,000 displaced Ukrainians now live in Krakow, increasing the population by 20% in just a few weeks. Now the city is helping them find long-term housing, jobs and spots in schools.

The population of Poland's second-largest city, Krakow, has grown 20% in the last month as 150,000 displaced Ukrainians have arrived seeking housing, jobs and schools.

"While others in Europe looked at Russia as a business partner," the Polish prime minister said, "we saw that Russia uses gas and oil as a way to blackmail."

President Biden is visiting Poland, next door to Ukraine. He gave a speech to U.S. troops stationed there to raise morale and also met with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Poland's Trump-loving conservative populists to unite with U.S. Democrats and European Union leaders: pillars of liberal democracy they have fought for years.

Alarmed by the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia's invasion, an economist in Slovakia gathered food and clothes from friends — and found himself leading a convoy carrying tons of aid into Ukraine.

As the U.N.'s refugee agency resists establishing camps in the EU for Ukrainians, Poles are quietly welcoming thousands into their homes.

Citizen-soldiers are joining Ukraine's new international brigade of foreign fighters. They include Poles who compare Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the Soviet Union's brutal occupation of Poland.

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.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is visiting Poland as Russia continues its assault on neighboring Ukraine.

A Ukrainian family fled their home and now are stuck on the Ukrainian side of the border with Poland in an endless line.

Yuliya Tolopa grew up in southern Russia but is now a reservist in the Ukrainian army and a hero in her adopted country.

In the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, shelling has intensified over the past 24 hours, and one government soldier was killed as Russian-backed separatists continue fighting.

NPR foreign correspondents in Kiev and Moscow give updates on the crisis.

NPR reported from Donbas just a few weeks ago. We hear the voices of people we met there, after the news that Russia has increased shelling in the area.

A chef famous in Ukraine for championing the nation's cuisine sees his cooking as part of the anti-Russian resistance.

Foreign embassies, expats and Ukrainians fearing a Russian invasion are heading west to Lviv, a jazz-loving city near NATO and EU countries that feels safe from bombs but not from Russian cyberwar.

It's the first stop in a trip that will also take Scholz to Moscow. At the same time, the Ukrainian town of Lviv, which is on the Polish border, is preparing for a Russian invasion.

President Biden has called on Americans in Ukraine to leave at once. But Americans there are questioning the urgency.