The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Last Friday afternoon, I received a phone call from my mother in Ukraine. It was 5am Kyiv time and I heard her voice tremble as she told me, “Putin announced an invasion – I can hear bombing!”.

The situation in Ukraine is the focus of the world's media. The shelling of Kharkiv has been condemned as a war crime by the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. There has been damage across the whole of Ukraine, but the next phase of the Russian operation is expected to…

The 40-mile convoy of Russian armoured military vehicles has been picked up by satellite footage closing in on Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as Vladimir Putin tightens the steel noose

World facing struggle between ‘good and evil’ in Ukraine, says PM

At least five people have been killed and five others injured in a suspected missile attack in Kyiv, according to Ukraine's civil defence authority.

Dancer had previously shared videos from a bomb shelter in Kyiv

The Ukrainian envoy to Israel tearfully implored it to provide more war aid on Tuesday even as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett defended his government's open channels to both Kyiv and Moscow as a means of offering "quiet" help. While the Israeli foreign minister has condemned the Russian invasion, Bennett's rhetoric…

Polly Hudson says she feels powerless and deeply uncomfortable carrying on as normal, while families in Ukraine flee for their lives. And there's only one thing she can do

Large Russian military convoy approaching Kyiv as war with Ukraine escalates. 

Israel's Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre voiced its "vehement condemnation" of a Russian attack on Tuesday near a Kyiv monument to Babyn Yar, site of a World War Two massacre of Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries.

The world was sent into shock last week as Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine towards its capital Kyiv