The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Kyiv mayor Vitality Klitschko says at least one person was killed and 12 more wounded in the Russian missile strikes

Mayor accuses Moscow of ‘genocide’, saying latest strike shows Putin’s indifference to women and children

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched several ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least one person and injuring nine others

Kyiv says that 2,200 Russian soldiers have died in the last 24 hours

Ukrainian official says Russia used hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles in the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he needed both Europe and the United States on board to secure a durable peace, as he huddled with EU leaders at their final summit before Donald Trump's inauguration.

As the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held his carefully stage-managed annual phone-in and press conference to answer questions from journalists and ordinary Russians, EU leaders were hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels at their final meeting of the year. Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine loomed large at both events.

John Healey has said Britain needs to ‘make the training a better fit for what the Ukrainians need’ and left the door open to it taking place in the war-torn country

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual end-of-year press conference Thursday, almost three years into his Ukraine offensive and two days after a Kyiv-orchestrated killing of a general on the streets of Moscow.