The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Air defence foils strike on Kyiv; Russia claims to have downed Ukrainian drone over Moscow after airport temporarily closed

Igor Strelkov raged against the president after the Wagner mutiny, and could now face years in jail.

From Bucha to the battle for Bakhmut, we track Wagner’s bloody role in Vladimir Putin’s invasion

The company is understandably seeking ‘good stories with happy endings’ but the best results come in a brief folk-dance piece

Independent TV Exclusive: Mrs Zelenska says her nation is seeking international help to find nearly 20,000 children Kyiv believes have been abducted into Russian territory

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

As the war in Ukraine escalated on and beyond the existing battlefields with intensified air, drone and ground operations, more than 40 countries met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, over the weekend of August 5-6 2023, to discuss peace.

Russia seeks to exploit situation as Kyiv’s counteroffensive concentrates on south and east of country

Two Russian missile strikes on the east Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, including on a residential building, killed at least five people and wounded 31 others, Kyiv said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are creating conditions to advance forward step-by-step and have the initiative on the battlefield, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said on Monday. Read…