The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Kyiv is seeking Western battle tanks to enable its forces to mount a counter-offensive against Russia.

Russia is claiming its forces have captured a village in an intense and monthslong push toward the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut

The German-manufactured tank first came into service in 1979 and has been in wide service in Europe

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that countries backing Ukraine needed to focus not only on sending new weapons to Kyiv, but looking at ammunition for older systems and helping maintain them.

Al Jazeera charts six months of assaults on Bakhmut as fighting against Russian forces intensifies.

Supplies of the one of the West’s best tanks would help Ukraine make up some of the difference in artillery firepower between themselves and Russia

Nato allies – including Poland and the Baltic nations who fear the spread of Russian aggression – have been pressuring Germany to allow tanks to be sent to Ukraine to defend itself

Russian forces are trying to close their circle around the small mining city of Bakhmut, while rain and an early spring thaw turned eastern Ukraine's battlefields to mud which could hamper both sides as they push for an initiative.

The United States and its allies failed during talks in Germany to convince Berlin to provide its Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, a key demand from Kyiv as it tries to breath new momentum into its fight against Russian forces.

CIA Director William Burns recently traveled in secret to Ukraine's capital to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a US official told Reuters on Thursday. "Director Burns traveled to Kyiv, where he met with Ukrainian intelligence counterparts as well as President Zelenskiy and reinforced our continued support for Ukraine and its defense…

Poland could send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine even without Germany's re-export approval, a deputy foreign minister said on Friday, ahead of a crunch meeting on weapons for Kyiv.