The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

The huge munition was removed by a 10-man specialist crew on Thursday

Ukraine was set to pull its troops from the ruined city of Sievierodonetsk after weeks of street fighting and bombardment, the regional governor said, in what would be a significant gain for Russia as it grinds out its offensive in the east.

Vladyslav Krasnoshchok describes himself as a "geopolitical surrealist" painter. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, he's been photographing the war with a vintage Olympus 35 mm camera.

Russia captures more villages south of Severodonetsk while all of Lysychansk is now within the reach of Russian fire.

These images reportedly show the moment Ukrainian troops pummel Russian soldiers while the latter tried to make progress in taking the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine.

At least 15 civilians were killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv region by Russian shelling on Tuesday, regional governor Oleh Synegubov said in an online posting.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it did not know the location of two Americans captured while fighting in eastern Ukraine, but that they were mercenaries and could be sentenced to death in Russian-backed breakaway territories. Americans Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing this month while fighting near…

Anton Ievsiushkin, from Sheffield, has helped scores of people get to the UK since his family escaped from Mariupol and Kharkiv.

Illness, homesickness, language barriers and job scarcity all took their toll. But the welcome – from Portugal to Poland – could not have been warmer

Russia's Iskander missiles struck a Kharkiv tank repair plant in Ukraine, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.

The situation north of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, is quite difficult as Russian forces have been trying to get closer to shell the city again, an official at Ukraine's interior ministry said on Sunday.