The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

He said he had run out of food and ammunition defending the city

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pressed ahead Tuesday in their drive to seize the strategic southern port of Mariupol and encircle Ukrainian defenders in the country’s east, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the nearly 7-week-old war could be entering a “new stage of terror” for his embattled country, and again…

Aiden Aslin, a 28-year-old from Nottinghamshire, said he had ‘no choice but to surrender to Russian forces’

The latest estimate was that about 21,000 civilian residents of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol had been killed since the start of Russia's invasion, the mayor of the port city said on Tuesday.

The United States is not in position to confirm reports of the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine but was working to determine what actually happened, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

The bloody and terrible war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a war of words. One of the more frequent words heard in the Russian media is vranyo, which means a “lie”. The Russian government and media have hurled it at Ukraine and its allies, accusing them of exaggerating the…

Analysis: Little evidence thus far that civilians in Mariupol had fallen ill because of chemical attack

‘It’s clear that we didn’t have a choice’, says Putin in rare public appearance

Aiden Aslin, 27, contacted his family in the early hours claiming the unit had run out of food and ammunition, saying he was praying the West could help bring and end to the relentless civilian bombing

Governor of Luhansk urges people to evacuate as Vladimir Putin insists Moscow will achieve its ‘noble’ aims

Bodyguards escorting Russian leader Vladimir Putin to official visits have been seen carrying a suspicious black briefcase - which is suspected to contain the means of launching the country's strategic nuclear missiles