The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

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.

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russia launched an onslaught of new attacks on civilian sites across Ukraine, U.S. officials on Thursday ratcheted up their accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces have committed war crimes, including the bombing of a theater this week where more than 1,000 people were sheltering.

Russia said its forces were "tightening the noose" around the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Friday and concern grew over mass civilian casualties as the United States again warned China against aiding Moscow in its invasion.

Seven’s Chris Reason among Australian journalists reporting from Kyiv despite ongoing danger. Plus: Age columnist walks after Claire Lehmann furore

INDORE: A siren blares. It's not the oven or smoke alarm. The teacher freezes in panic. Over 7,000km away, in Bhopal, students shudder to see their teacher in Kyiv, Ukraine, terrified. It's a terror each of them knows all too well.

Russia has reportedly lost more than 7,000 soldiers; American citizen killed in central Chernihiv.

Three weeks have passed since since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his violent, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. While his stated objectives hinted at the elimination of Ukraine’s defence — demilitarization — and the removal of its political class — denazification — the rationale behind the invasion is harder to decode.

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under renewed Russian shelling on Thursday as negotiators deem talks ‘complicated’.