The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military was stiffening defenses Sunday against Russian assaults in the east and south as the nation’s president framed the war as an existential threat to all of European democracy.

HOSTOMEL, Ukraine — Days after Russian forces retreated from Kyiv, the northern outskirts of the Ukrainian capital are littered with the charred remains of blown-up and abandoned Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers and other equipment.

Downing Street promised to send more financial and military aid to the war-torn country

A single ceramic cockerel stood untouched on a kitchen cabinet during a bombardment of Borodianka, giving rise to this new symbol of resistance

PM thanks ‘iron people’ of the railway for helping arrange journey from Poland

The Russian military is bruised and retreating from around Kyiv

Boris Johnson travelled to Kyiv by train for his face-to-face meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, it has emerged.

Special Report: A man watches a Russian missile destroy his family’s home in front of his eyes. A teenager avoids a summary execution by seconds. In Borodyanka, Bucha, Hostomel and Makariv, Bel Trew finds a Russian retreat marked by a trail of murdered civilians, mass graves and devastation

Britain’s Ministry of Defense says that Russia’s armed forces are seeking to respond to mounting losses by boosting troop numbers with personnel who had been discharged from military service since 2012