The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Ukrainian forces in Mariupol ignore Russia’s ultimatum as officials in Kyiv pledge to ‘fight to the end’.

‘All those who will continue resistance will be destroyed,’ the Russian defense ministry’s spokesman said

After two weeks of relative calm in the city, sinking of Moskva warship leads to retaliatory missile attacks

Russia has told Ukrainian soldiers in southern city to surrender as Ukraine president laments ‘inhuman’ situation there

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation in Mariupol is "inhuman" and called on the West to immediately provide heavy weapons, as Russia claimed it was in control of almost all of the strategic port city and urged its last defenders to surrender. Moscow said Ukrainian forces in the city…

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sunday that the strategic port city of Mariupol “has not fallen” and that the encircled forces defending the city from Russian attack will “fight to the end". Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had invited French President Emmanuel Macron…

Russian forces have renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city

Explosions were heard in the early hours on Sunday in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, local media reported.

Ukrainian soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverised port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.