The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy, all criticised in the past by Kyiv for support viewed as too cautious, visited Ukraine on Thursday and offered the hope of EU membership to a country pleading for weapons to fend off Russia's invasion.

France, Germany, Italy and Romania leaders back Kyiv’s bid for EU membership and pledge more arms to fend off Russia.

Up to 1,200 civilians may be holed up in the shelters of the Azot chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city where one of the fiercest battles of the war has been raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed separatist said. Russian forces are trying to grind down Ukrainian…

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a new package of arms and ammunition for Ukraine after reaffirming Washington’s support for Kyiv against Russia’s invasion in a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The $1 billion package includes more artillery, coastal anti-ship defence systems and ammunition for artillery and advanced rocket…

Russia's invasion of Ukraine was at a "pivotal" moment and the United States and its allies could not lose focus on the three-month long conflict, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday as Western countries pledged more weapons to Kyiv.

Editorial: Kyiv is reckoning not only with Russia’s brutal military assault but the difficulties of maintaining European solidarity

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Romania Tuesday night to visit some 500 French troops deployed there. A subsequent visit to Moldova is planned for Wednesday, followed by a potential visit to Kyiv.

For years a vocal minority at Saint Nicholas' parish in the middle-class Kyiv commuter town of Irpin resisted calls to split from their spiritual fathers in Moscow.

Ukraine's budget revenues cover less than half of expenditures following Russia's invasion, and Kyiv will have to cut budget spending sharply if more external financial assistance does not arrive, the head of parliament's financial committee said.