The Latest Breaking News from Lviv

One month has passed since Russia launched its "special military operation" on February 24, turning Ukraine into a war zone. On a journey from the Polish border to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, FRANCE 24 met civilians and soldiers suddenly plunged into a brutal and bloody conflict.

Ukraine’s navy on Thursday reported destroying Russia’s large landing ship, Orsk, near the port city of Berdyansk

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces defending the capital, Kyiv, managed to wrest back control of a strategic outlying town that Russian troops had earlier captured, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, but invading troops were reported to have breached the besieged port city of Mariupol, scene of some of the war’s most…

In Ukraine, there are mass graves for massacred civilians and haunting ceremonies for fallen soldiers. The fallout of war is now reaching even the smallest villages, and those who live there have a warning for the West.

Lviv is flooded with refugees and Russian attacks continue — but Ukrainians understand their place in history

A shipment of aid sent from Tyneside on March 12 has now safely arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine.

Viktoria and Oleksii Kazantsev had been sheltering in Mariupol before leaving the port city in their car, which had been protected from Russian forces' bombardment in an underground garage. Now in Lviv with their daughter, they describe the devastation they witnessed as they fled.

In Ukraine, the bomb shelters aren't wheelchair accessible.

LVIV, Ukraine — International outrage mounted Monday over medieval scenes of suffering in Mariupol, a strategic southern port city that has defied demands for surrender despite a ferocious Russian siege that Ukrainian officials say has trapped thousands of civilians and left corpses lying in the streets.