The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy marked Ukraine's Defenders Day holiday on Friday by promising victory over Russia and freedom for Ukraine. In a video address delivered on hills outside the capital Kyiv, Zelenskiy thanked Ukraine's armed forces for defending their country. He said everything that had been taken away from Ukraine would…

Artur is in touch by text with father Oleg, a colonel in pro-Moscow forces, and is trying hard not to let hate consume him

Russia is keeping up its targeted attacks on critical infrastructure across Ukraine, in a fifth straight day of intensified bombardments

Russian president says any direct clash with Nato troops would be ‘global catastrophe’ as he says 220,000 will be called up

The UN has apparently verified over 100 cases of rape and sexual assaults in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February

The governor of a Russian border region accused Ukraine of shelling an apartment block there on Thursday but a Kyiv official said a stray Russian missile was to blame. Vyacheslav Gladkov said a school had been damaged in a village close to the border, and that the top floor of…

Ukraine's top prosecutor said on Thursday his office had opened criminal proceedings relating to Russian missile strikes that struck Kyiv and cities across Ukraine this week.

A Ukrainian politician took to fundraising to buy up kamikaze drones that would be used in revenge attacks he said following Russian bombardment of the country this week

Ukraine’s Air Force shot down six Iranian drones overnight in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.

According to the Ukrainian military's estimates, Kyiv's forces have destroyed around 235 enemy helicopters and 268 aeroplanes since the war broke out in February

The Kremlin’s missile strikes on Kyiv this week brought fearful crowds, once again, inside its metro stations for shelter, just like when the war began. It marked the end of a summer that had seen life in the city return almost to normal and an autumn filled with the excitement…