The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Kyiv sources are claiming that more than 100,000 soldiers have been killed battling for Bakhmut and that Ukraine’s soldiers will encircle them in the coming weeks

We speak to a Ukrainian military expert, serviceman and analysts on what the possible capture of Bakhmut means.

Kyiv claims ‘huge losses have been inflicted on the enemy’ after year of bitter fighting in eastern city

Fighting has broken out on Russia’s border with Ukraine in an apparent incursion by partisan forces; Russian-imposed Donetsk leader Denis Pushilin says demining is being carried out in Bakhmut

Ukraine said on Monday its troops were still advancing on the flanks of the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, although the "intensity" of their movement had decreased and Russia was bringing in more forces.

‘Together, with the entire G7, we have Ukraine’s back’ says the US president

Kyiv has nothing to do with Belgorod attack, says Zelensky aide

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says during Japan visit that Ukrainian troops are still in eastern city at centre of bloody battle; Moscow calls summit a ‘politicised’ event

A delegation of six African leaders set to hold talks with Kyiv and Moscow aim to “initiate a peace process” but also broach the thorny issue of how a heavily-sanctioned Russia can be paid for the fertilizer exports Africa desperately needs, a key mediator in the talks said

Ukraine said on Sunday that its forces were still advancing around the edges of Bakhmut, aiming to encircle the ruined eastern city after Moscow congratulated the Wagner private army and Russian troops for capturing it.

Zelenskiy lays flowers at cenotaph in Hiroshima; conflicting claims over whether Russia has captured Bakhmut