The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

‘Easter truce’ ordered by Putin on Saturday but Ukraine president says Russian army continuing efforts to advance

In war-torn occupied territories, fake teams are being deployed as a tool to normalise a violent denial of the past

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to create ‘impression of a ceasefire’, saying Russian forces continued attacks despite President Vladimir Putin’s unilateral declaration of an Easter ceasefire

Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian troops remain under fire in Russian border regions despite Vladimir Putin’s ‘Easter truce’. What we know on day 1,152

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reported that Russian troops are still firing at Ukraine despite the Kremlin having agreed to a ceasefire for Easter.

The fate of a US-Israeli hostage who Hamas said had featured in an Israeli truce proposal remains unknown, the group said on Saturday, separately releasing a video of another captive alive.

The Russian president orders a stop to fighting for ‘humanitarian reasons’ but Ukraine reports attacks in the Kursk and Belgorod regions

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced a surprise Easter truce in the conflict in Ukraine to last until midnight on Sunday.

With Ankara warning Tehran not to undermine Syria’s new rulers and its ongoing peace efforts with Kurdish rebels, regional rivalry with Iran has been intensifying. However, Turkey’s concerns about potential US military action against Iran over its nuclear energy programme are now providing a rare point of convergence between the…