Pelosi confirms trip to Asia, but makes no mention of Taiwan
Pelosi would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
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Pelosi would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.
Ukraine is accusing Russia of killing dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the battle in Eastern Ukraine. Russia denied the accusations, instead claiming Ukrainians conducted the massacre. Holly Williams reports.
U.S. veterans are training soldiers in Ukraine how to use weapons and battlefield first aid. One American told CBS News the Ukrainians need more weapons to fend off the Russians. Holly Williams reports.
Russian forces have launched massive missile strikes on the Kyiv and the Chernihiv regions, areas that haven't been targeted in weeks.
A Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia, Ukraine, earlier this month killed this 7-year-old boy's mother – and left him with burns on 45% of his body and a fractured skull.
The two were among four foreigners who died while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the country's disputed Donetsk region, their commander said.
The family of 31-year-old Luke Lucyszyn said he died fighting "for the little guy" in a David-and-Goliath fight in Ukraine. As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports, Lucyszyn was fighting alongside foreign fighters when Russian tanks fired.
Americans Brian Young and Luke Lucyszyn were killed fighting in eastern Ukraine. They are at least the fifth and sixth Americans to die in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. Holly Williams has more.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova says a Russian attack on the port of Odesa, just days after reaching an agreement to resume shipments of grain, is an example of Russia "showing their true face," and "the good response to that should be more weapons to Ukraine so that we can defend ourselves."
Russian officials insisted that the airstrike — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — hit only military targets.
Russia and Ukraine signed two separate agreements allowing Ukraine to resume shipments of grain supplies across the Black Sea as Russia lifts its naval blockade. But this morning, Russian missiles are reportedly striking a key port city. Holly Williams has more.
The agreement should see Russia drop its blockade of Ukraine's ports, where millions of tons of food have been stuck, exacerbating a global food emergency.
Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska is set to address Congress on Wednesday morning about the conditions on the ground in Ukraine and the treatment of women and children during the ongoing war. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor spoke with Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers on CBS News about Zelenska's message and the possibility that Russia is trying to annex several regions in southern Ukraine.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting Russian autocrat that their two heavily sanctioned nations should maximize their "mutual cooperation."
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the leaders of Iran and Turkey in Tehran. This was his second trip out of Moscow since launching the invasion of Ukraine. The visit comes as Putin tries to strengthen ties with allies amid isolation from the West. Mark Katz, professor of government and politics at George Mason University, joined CBS News to discuss.
A funeral of a fallen soldier shows the daily cost of Russia's invasion. As CBS News' senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports, more will follow without drastic changes to Ukraine's weaponry.
Ukraine says Russian troops have received orders to intensify attacks beyond the front lines. This comes as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removes the country's top prosecutor and security chief following allegations that some Ukrainian officials are helping the Russians. CBS News' Holly Williams reports from Kyiv.
A family torn apart by war is reunited at a Bay Area airport after a global trek and an extended period of detention. Anna Werner has more.
In Italy more people are heading to food banks, while Germans are turning down the AC to prep for energy rationing.
CBS News meets a young American and others racing to evacuate the most vulnerable people as Russia's forces, and its bombs, close in.
But after Biden reaffirmed to Israel that the U.S. wouldn't let that happen, an advisor to the supreme leader says Tehran still hasn't "made a decision" to build one.
Soldiers often write memoirs about their time in combat. One Medal of Honor recipient, retired Green Beret John Duffy, has written an epic poem about one of the biggest battles of the Vietnam War. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with Duffy about "The Battle for 'Charlie.'"
Russian missiles have hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine as a funeral took place for a 4-year-old girl killed in an earlier strike elsewhere in the country.
In eastern Ukraine's Kramatorsk, a few children still can be seen on mostly empty playgrounds as artillery sounds in the distance against Russian invaders.
In addition to the human losses from the war in Ukraine, many cultural websites in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed. A group of technology specialists and volunteers is seeking to preserve Ukraine’s digital cultural legacy by rescuing Ukrainian websites that could otherwise be lost forever. John Blackstone reports.