The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

A number of viral posts on social media have claimed that a Canadian sniper, dubbed "the world's deadliest sniper", was killed within hours of arriving in Mariupol, Ukraine, where he had gone to fight. However the man, nicknamed Wali, is still alive and well. He told the FRANCE 24 Observers…

Ukraine’s military intelligence claimed Russian troops were confiscating identity documents of captured residents

Entire settlements reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian targets and the bombing of refugee exit routes were all part of Moscow’s brutal Syria campaign

Heartbreaking images from Mariupol and Kyiv show the devastation with bombed-out schools, hospitals and government buildings - which once served as important sites before Russia invaded Ukraine

The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion and is pledging $1 billion in new humanitarian aid, the Biden administration said on Thursday after a month of bombardments touched off Europe's fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.

Ukrainian authorities in besieged Mariupol said on Thursday about 15,000 civilians had been illegally deported to Russia since Russian forces seized parts of the southern port city.

The Mirror's Matt Roper traces a month of madness from the moment Vladimir Putin's troops invaded neighbouring Ukraine to today, as Russia's war machine digs in for a long and difficult occupation

Russia’s war in Ukraine has killed thousands, reduced entire cities to rubble and forced millions to flee their homes

Sequential urban sieges are brutally effective, but ensure lasting hatred and make long-term success unlikely.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had banked on NATO being split when he launched an invasion of Ukraine last month, but Putin actually sparked the exact opposite, with the alliance now being “more united than ever”, US President Joe Biden said at a NATO-G7 summit in Brussels on Thursday. Read FRANCE…

Russia’s failure to score a quick victory has led to a grimmer phase of the war, and much still hangs in the balance