A Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars at a military check point Wednesday.Rodrigo Abd | APGo Deeper.CloseCreate an account or log in to save stories We have added it to a list of your favorite stories including dozens of confirmed attacks on health facilities during the war that on Thursday entered its fourth week A Russian airstrike before dawn Thursday killed 21 people and destroyed a school and community center in Merefa Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven leading economies said in a joint statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin is conducting an “unprovoked and shameful war." The fighting has led more than 3 million people to flee Ukraine though Ukraine has said thousands of civilians have died MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all Here are some key things to know about the conflict: The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on hospitals and health facilities WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council in a virtual briefing Thursday rescuers continued searching for survivors of a Russian airstrike on a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering With communications disrupted across the city and movement difficult because of shelling and other fighting there were conflicting reports on whether anyone had emerged from the rubble Video and photos provided by the Ukrainian military showed that the building had been reduced to a roofless shell said the building had a relatively modern basement bomb shelter designed to withstand airstrikes Snow flurries fell around the skeletons of burned windowless and shrapnel-scarred apartment buildings as smoke rose above Mariupol's skyline “We are trying to survive somehow,” said one Mariupol resident During a video address to German lawmakers Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Russia for the dire situation in Mariupol saying: “Everything is a target for them.” Zelenskyy's address was delayed because of a technical problem caused by an attack close to where Zelenskyy was speaking Bundestag deputy speaker Katrin Goering-Eckardt said The governor of the northern city of Chernihiv said it has experienced “colossal losses and destruction” from Russian artillery and air strikes Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian TV on Thursday that the bodies of 53 people had arrived at city morgues over the past 24 hours a municipal pool complex where pregnant women and women with children were taking shelter was also hit Wednesday head of the Donetsk regional administration A fire broke out in an apartment building in the capital Thursday after it was hit by the remnants of a downed Russian rocket killing one person and injuring at least three others depriving thousands of heat and clean water Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia’s invasion “has largely stalled on all fronts” amid stiff Ukrainian resistance It said Russian forces have made “minimal progress” on land Ukrainian forces are using inexpensive Turkish-made drones to carry out lethal attacks on the Russian invaders The attacks in Mariupol knocked out the windows of apartment buildings and sent smoke rising above the skyline some with the “Z” symbol of the Russian invasion force in their windows drove past stacks of ammunition boxes and artillery shells in a neighborhood controlled by Russian-backed separatists doctors are struggling to treat COVID-19 patients as the bombs fall outside sending virus patients — some connected to ventilators and struggling to breathe — into bomb shelters “Bombing takes place from morning into night," hospital director Dr Zelenskyy’s adviser Mikhailo Podolyak said Ukraine is demanding a cease-fire the withdrawal of Russian troops and legal security guarantees for Ukraine from a number of countries Ukrainian and Russian delegations held talks again Wednesday by video speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks said the main subject under discussion was whether Russian troops would remain in separatist regions in eastern Ukraine after the war and where the borders would be Russia recognized the independence of two regions controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and extended the borders of those regions to areas Ukraine had continued to hold and will attend an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels NATO has been bolstering its eastern flank with troops and equipment to deter Russia from invading any of its members Secretary of State Antony Blinken said American officials were evaluating and documenting potential war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine Blinken said the intentional targeting of civilians is a war crime for which there will be “massive consequences.” Toward Racial Justice: Voices from the Midstate FILE - A Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars at a military check point It’s been one month since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow Russian troops have been unable to advance on the capital of Kyiv Ukrainian forces pushed back some Russian soldiers; to the northwest Russian forces are digging in to defensive positions Russian troops had overrun Kherson and Melitopol The key port city of Mariupol remains under siege Russia’s military continues to rely on artillery and bombs The war has displaced more than half of Ukraine’s children and a quarter of the overall Ukrainian population Some 2.5 million children have had to relocate inside Ukraine and more than 1.8 million more have crossed into other countries as refugees Almost 3.7 million people have fled Ukraine, according to the U.N. refugee agency. The United States pledged to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians and other displaced people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine FILE – A Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces member holds an NLAW anti-tank weapon He also said Russia should be ejected from the G-20 Russia and Ukraine exchanged 10 prisoners of war each, according to Ukrainian officials, who called it the first full-fledged swap of the conflict The countries also exchanged captured civilian sailors Putin has accomplished something he never intended: a unified Europe Four reasons why social media can give a skewed account of the war in Ukraine A Russian journalist was killed by shelling while on assignment in Kyiv A Ukrainian pharma executive vows to continue production “until we win or we die.” Madeleine Albright had a lot to say about Putin — and she didn’t mince words Ukrainian expats want the U.S. to do more for friends and relatives fighting Russia You can read more news from Thursday here, as well as more in-depth reporting and daily recaps here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR’s State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day Become a WITF sponsor today » your mornings are just too busy to catch the news beyond a headline or two enlightened and up-to-date on what’s happening in central Pennsylvania and the rest of this great commonwealth Driving Directions Request a Tour Photographers from Associated Press and other agencies have documented the truth about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since the war began on Feb Here are the latest images depicting the heroism Trump Administration Freezes Future Grants to Harvard Half a thousand examples of Ukrainian ritual bread were brought to Ivan Honchar Museum in Kiev from a hundred villages situated in the 18 of the Ukraine’s regions Bread of different kinds – from magnificent wedding round loafs to small pasties and cakes – occupied long tables and benches in five exhibition halls of the Museum and filled the rooms with sweet odor of bakery With this unique exhibition called “I’m baking baking tasty bread” the Museum staff and the exhibition visitors honored those who died during the famine of the 1932-33 decorations and recipes were presented at the exhibition I didn’t think we would get such a treasure – these are the words of Petro Honchar He and his colleagues from the Museum spent about a week traveling around Ukraine’s regions and collecting baked bread — We thought that people would bake bread and we would be able to dedicate it to the activity – go get some involvement of the entire Ukrainian nation But wherever we went people baked it with great love sacrifice and joy because they were glad to be addressed as grain-growers and bakers Myroslava Vertyuk,a research assistant of Ivan Honchar Museum “The exhibition’s idea was not only to commemorate people who starved to death during the Ukrainian Holodomor; it also was to pay homage to these people by showing though bread wellness of Ukraine which was completely destroyed during 1932-33”— said Myroslava Vertyuk “We are showing the spiritual section of culture connected with bread though ritual activities and fests We purposely united the project devoted to bread with the “Millstone” exhibition where we presented baking traditions through folklore and rituals in different artistic ways both the exhibition and the performance are built using the contrasts between the tradition’s beauty and depth and grief Because of some organizational issues we do not have bread from Donetsk But it’s not the number that is important for the Museum; it’s the ancient traditional nature of the collected loafs people of Shershentsy in Odessa region baked ten kinds of only funeral commemoration bread only.” Bread was a component part of each important event holiday and each ordinary day of people’s lives Rye grains were put into cradles of new-born children; people went to ask in marriage with special bread; newly wed couples were blessed with bread; bread accompanied people in their final journeys… Even in the times of the technical progress it is difficult to imagine a wedding without wedding bread and wedding “cones”; the Easter – without Easter cakes and cheesecakes; the first Savior day – without poppy seed shortcakes; Andrew’s day – without a “Calyta” – a hard sweet kind of doughnut People knew at the time and even at present they remember several hundreds names of bread kinds which differed in different regions kalenyk – these make only the beginning of the list of ritual breads exhibited in the Ivan Honchar Museum More modern kinds of bread are shown in one of the halls; two of the rest house traditional original ones The exposition reveals Ukrainian bakery tradition both ancient and modern the senior research assistant of Ivan Honchar Museum The exhibits in the next halls are more old-fashioned you can see huge loafs from the central Ukraine Zhitomyr and Vinnitsya regions occupying nearly half a table each One would not be able to put such bread in a modern oven: large ovens are required for this All ceremonial sign semantics is present in the decoration of breads: swastikas oak leaves and periwinkle-grape leave shapes All this beauty reveals the magnificence of simple; it means everything that different masters have always been trying to decorate bread with and every of them in an original way.” a master of bakery has baked 17 breads for the exhibition When I start to make a simplest loaf I may suddenly want to end with a Corovay – a round wedding bread And this bread is very difficult to bake because I want to make all the correspondent roses I beg people not to bake those French-American loafs but to bake simple Ukrainian loafs instead Corovay serves as a kind of an indicator: the baker makes some decoration puts it into the oven and its appearance after it is baked should show whether the couple would be happy” a sacramental dish for Gods and it even has divinity and divine strength of its own That is why the main law of the bread exhibition is its sacral character with the ancient mythological and religious thinking of people long gone These are symbols representing ancient myths pre-Christian religion – tells us Volodymyr Rak an artist-restorer and a senior research assistant of Ivan Honchar Museum — Have you ever thought why we greet people with bread-and-salt It is a tradition meaning that the hosts connect the visitors coming to our land with the Gods of the country Each guest should have a bite of this bread for the Gods to recognize and protect him” who has helped the Museum staff to copy a series of ancient bread kinds is sure that Ukrainians “demonstrate high universal outlook in their artistic bakery” “Grain growing in Ukraine has been known for 9 thousand years starting from mesolite; but it reached its fullest flower during Trypillya civilization And Ukrainians used to do everything in a kind of a saint circle too: starting from koloboks (spherical loafs) and ending with the wedding bread – meaning from simple to the most difficult When 5 thousand years back our ancestors went to India from the Dnipro banks the highest heaven; and Hindu do not know what it is But we know that our wedding ceremonies are guided by svakhas and svats; and after svakhas – usually wonderful bakers – have prepared and decorated the wedding bread they are presented by baked “cones” having ancient swastika signs – the signs of unstoppable movement of our Universe our bread is directly connected with the Earth and the Heaven In Trypillya a wheat grain holds both spheres: of the Earth and of the Sky; and in Ukraine a simple word “kolosok” (a diminutive name for the wheat or rye ear) is composed of the words “kolo” (a circle) and “sok” meaning vivifying strength of the earth.” Young people went to collect periwinkle for the wedding wreath with the same calach: it was placed on the ground and through its opening the leaves were cut young couples took this calach with them when they went to register their marriage But in the end they did not eat the calach: it was hung on the wall to protect the young family “In different villages we saw houses with hanging calaches 20-30 years old – tells us Svitlana Tvorun Usually they hang under icons in old ladies’ houses An old lady complained about her daughter who lived in a city and did not want to hang her calach on the wall so her mother did it for her.” People obligatorily baked this kind of bread for Christmas and in some regions for commemoration days Pirih-rid (a family pie) – is also called “relatives” in some villages These pies usually used to be baked for holidays they are composed of many small pies put together in one small pies are laid in a large round pan and when the dough rises these small pies make a single pie symbolizing close family relations guests should break off small pies from this large single one and eat them with other dishes; in other villages the hostess gives these pies to the relatives before they leave when the holiday is over and adds some more for the members of the families who had to stay at home for them “not to avoid the family” Calach with edges is made for Christmas; later it is hung in the corner under the icons Such calaches were fed to cows when they calved Bread exhibition in Ivan Honchar Museum is open till the 8th December Afterwards the loafs will be conserved using modern conservation methods and they will be kept in the Museum fund Ladies are making dough for breads intended for the exhibition in Ivan Honchar Museum dough “sausages” are made to be arranged in different possible ways later 0.5 kg of yeast dissolve in a glass of warm sour milk; add a little sugar and flour and leave it to rise Sift dry warm flour so that it would take some air in special addition is prepared: boil 1 liter of milk and add a little flour quickly stirring it in the process until the substance gets rather thick Add this substance to the dissolved yeast; add 6 bowls of flour stir everything well and leave for 2-3 hours in a warm place to rise 1 packet of butter (packets about 200g each) 40 eggs (20 of them – only yolks) a small glass of vodka or cognac; vanilla to the liking Stir the dough well (till it sweats your guts out) dipping your fists in high quality vegetable oil now and then Shortcake with poppy seed made for the Savior day 1 tablespoonful of fat; half teaspoonful of baking soda Flatten the dough until it is about half a centimeter thick stick them with a fork and bake the shortcake in an oven they are usually broken along the cuts into small squares Then they are put in a bowl which is later filled with grinded poppy seed and honey or sugar the same amount of honey or sugar and one cup of water).