The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Pope Francis on Saturday to back Kyiv's peace plan, and the pope indicated the Vatican would help in the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken by Russians.

Ukraine has been saying for months that it's planning a "spring offensive" in a bid to recapture territory from Russia and end the winter deadlock in the conflict. But with spring already sprung, what is Kyiv waiting for and what will they hope to achieve when the offensive finally begins?

Russian-installed officials on Friday said missiles fired by Ukrainian forces had injured six children and a Russian parliamentarian and damaged two disused factories in eastern Luhansk region's main city, about 100 km (60 miles) behind the frontlines.

Moscow says its troops have ‘regrouped’ to the city’s north – in what head of Wagner mercenaries has called a ‘rout’

Mariana Potetenko fled her home in Kyiv in June last year and came to Liverpool

Moscow statement is first admission that Ukraine is successfully recapturing ground around eastern city

Ukrainian military commanders say their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, for the eastern city of Bakhmut, but it wasn’t clear if this marked the start of Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive

Moscow acknowledged on Friday that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine's battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a retreat that the head of Russia's Wagner private army called a rout. 

Col Roman Kostenko on how nightly tactical operations are crucial to Kyiv’s preparation for a counteroffensive

As a crowd gathered outside the white-brick Orthodox church in the village of Karyshkiv in western Ukraine, raised voices quickly turned to shouting. Soon old women were crying.

Ukraine's crackdown on corruption has raised eyebrows in recent months by going after respected former technocrats who helped repair the country after the political upheaval of 2014.