The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Russia claims to be ‘tightening noose’ around south-eastern port city as thousands stranded

Russia struck buildings near western city of Lviv and capital Kyiv as world leaders push for an investigation of the Kremlin’s repeat attacks on civilian targets. President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping of China meet Friday for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a phone call on Friday that Kyiv was attempting to stall peace talks with Russia but that Moscow was still keen to continue negotiations.

The Nigerian national says she is facing turmoil at home and abroad.

The deliberate Russian bombing of a Mariupol drama theater, where hundreds of women and children were sheltering, is a grim sign of where Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is headed. A Russian pilot bombed the theater even though the word children was written in huge Russian letters on plazas in…

As the Russian invasion moves in on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, bombs are hitting close to the places I once called home. When I first heard that a missile struck a TV tower close to Babyn Yar in Kyiv, I thought: “That used to be my park.” Because of this attack,…

Some of the war’s youngest victims are a group of babies carried by Ukrainian mothers for couples living overseas who are unable to collect their newborns after Russia’s invasion, reports Kim Sengupta in Kyiv

Russian forces have struck Ukrainian cities from a distance again, hitting sites in the capital Kyiv and the country’s west as their ground offensive inched forward under fierce Ukrainian resistance

Set up some 30 kilometres north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian army’s lines of defence have so far succeeded in preventing Russian troops from advancing on the capital. The anti-tank missiles provided by Western allies have handed the Ukrainian soldiers a sense of courage and hope. Embedded with the Ukrainian Army’s…

A Ukrainian theatre company has confirmed that actress Oksana Shvets has died following a Russian attack on a residential building in Kyiv

Russian forces press their assault on Ukrainian cities, with new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv.