William Fleeson

1 month ago | wng.org | William Fleeson

When air raid sirens begin wailing in the middle of the night, Svetlana Prokopiv wakes her children and leads them downstairs. The 45-year-old divorced mother of two, with a bottle-blond pixie haircut and a permanent smile, lives on the top floor of an apartment building in the Shevchenko district of central Kyiv. What was once a desirable family dwelling has become, under Russian airstrikes, increasingly vulnerable because of its height and its distance from shelter at or below street level.

2 months ago | wng.org | William Fleeson

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2 months ago | wng.org | Paul Butler |William Fleeson

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It:Ukrainians consider what’s next. Since the war started, nearly 7 million men, women, and children have left Ukraine, and nearly 1 million have sought refuge in nearby Poland. With conversations about ending the war in progress, what do these displaced Ukrainians have to say? MARY REICHARD, HOST: Will Fleeson is a Correspondent for WORLD, reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine. Will, good morning. WILL FLEESON: Good morning, Mary.

2 months ago | wng.org | William Fleeson

On a cold and darkening Friday afternoon, school-aged children prepared to go home. They buttoned their jackets and wished each other goodbye, the older ones already buried in their cellphones and earbuds. This typical school scene, which could have played out nearly anywhere, took place last week in Warsaw, Poland, at a site run by the large nonprofit Polish Center for International Aid (its Polish acronym is PCPM).

2 months ago | wng.org | William Fleeson

OLENA, A CHRISTIAN WOMAN who lives outside Kherson, endured eight months of Russian occupation. For most of 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Christians in Kherson suffered the constant threat of harassment, torture, and even murder at the hands of their Russian occupiers. WORLD has agreed not to use Olena’s real name out of ongoing fear for her safety. Despite the threats, Olena’s church maintained its humanitarian care to locals—believers or not.