The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Destruction of historic buildings is considered a war crime and Kharkiv has been among worst affected

The country’s second-largest city has been under sustained Russian attack. With the Russian offensive intensifying in the east, the onslaught has grown even fiercer.

The Ukrainian military said the attacks took place in the north-eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv Oblast.

Russian troops storm the Azovstal steel plant amid a UN effort to evacuate civilians from the facility, which helped at least 101 people arrive in Zaporizhzhia.

Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, unleashing rockets on a steel plant that is Ukraine's last redoubt in the port city of Mariupol as the European Union prepared to slap oil sanctions on Moscow.

KHARKIV, Ukraine — At some point, all shelling sites look the same. There’s the jagged-edge crater with a spray-pattern of divots gouged out by shrapnel; the gap-toothed hole where ordnance punched through a wall; the scorched remains of automobiles that happened to be passing when a missile slammed into the…

The outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are beginning to have the feel of an open-air morgue

Queensland woman Zoya Olepir could not bear another sleepless night wondering if her brother was still alive in Ukraine. So she travelled to a war zone to rescue Viktor, who lives with Down Syndrome.

Major-General Andrei Simonov, 55, was killed during fighting in Izyum near Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv, sources claim.

Ukrainian authorities are planning to evacuate more civilians from Mariupol on Monday, after dozens were finally brought to safety following weeks trapped under heavy fire in the strategic port city's Azovstal steel complex. The plant has endured a Russian blockade since Moscow's invasion on February 24, with stories of the…

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