The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

UK and US have so far promised a handful; official says with 60 they can stop Russians ‘dead in their tracks’

Major General Roman Kutuzov died while leading attack, Russian state media presenter reports

British prime minister already has street named after him in southern Ukraine

As Kyiv district authorities investigate possible war crimes perpetrated by Russian troops, volunteers exhume bodies.

President makes rare publicised visit outside Kyiv to Lysychansk

Britain said Monday it will mirror the United States and send long-range missile systems to Ukraine, defying warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin against supplying Kyiv with the advanced weapons.

Ukrainian forces have beaten back Russian units to control about half of the flashpoint eastern city of Severodonetsk, according to local officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky has, meanwhile, been visiting the front lines to support Ukraine's "true heroes".

The Russian Ministry of Defense has said during a briefing today that they are hitting Ukrainian positions hard with missiles and artillery.

Photojournalist Serhii Korovayny has twice uprooted his family because of Russian invasion. He talks to others with the same experience

Ukrainian troops have beaten back Russian forces to control half of a flashpoint eastern city, local officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front lines to support his country's "true heroes". As the see-saw battle raged on for the strategically important city of Severodonetsk -- the largest in the…

Britain's defence ministry said that early on Sunday Russian air-launched cruise missiles struck rail infrastructure in Ukraine capital Kyiv.