The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally to lavish praise on his Russian forces

(Updates with latest Ukraine defense ministry statement)

Nowhere feels safe in Ukraine, but high up in the eastern Carpathians is about as close as it gets, reports Max Bearak

A woman dressed in a dark blue winter coat and black hat presses a white cloth to her mouth as she stands in the street and stares up in disbelief at the blown-out windows and other damage inflicted by a bomb on a residential building in Kyiv.

Peace talks with Russia may last at least “several weeks,” even though there are signs that Moscow’s position has become more “adequate,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency.

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles hit an aircraft repair facility outside this city on Friday, bringing the war closer to a relatively safe haven in western Ukraine — a center for refugees and humanitarian aid — and within miles of the eastern border of NATO.

‘Russia is now pursuing a strategy of attrition’, UK’s chief of defence intelligence says

With air raid sirens and the thump of explosions now a familiar night time sound to residents of Kyiv, increasing numbers have taken to sheltering in the city's deep underground metro stations, battling boredom as they wait for what comes next.

A Russian strike on a theater sheltering civilians in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol badly wounded one person but did not kill anyone, authorities said Friday, as deadly fighting raged on elsewhere across the country. Rescuers picked through the rubble to find hundreds of civilians feared trapped in the wreckage…