The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Ukraine’s ministry of defence says its forces carried out an attack on a Russian command near Kherson

A Russian missile strike has killed eight people and wounded 18 others in Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odesa on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Read our live blog below to see how the day's events unfolded. All times in Paris time (GMT+2).

Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not need to take the plant.

The Moldovan foreign ministry said it had summoned Moscow's ambassador on Friday to express "deep concern" about comments by a top military commander, who suggested the country's Russian-speaking population was being oppressed.

LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — The mayor of Mariupol pleaded Friday for a “full evacuation” of the shattered southern Ukrainian port city that Russia now claims to control, as Moscow said it struck dozens of military targets in the sprawling eastern battle zone overnight.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is due to meet with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin next week.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow next week to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin and then head to Ukraine for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Guterres will head to Moscow on Tuesday and meet Putin as well as having a working meeting and lunch with Russian Foreign Minister…

Up to 1,000 people could be holed up in Azovstal factory with group of outgunned Ukrainian fighters

The United Nations human rights office sounded the alarm on Friday about growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, urging both Moscow and Kyiv to order combatants to respect international law. "Russian armed forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and wrecking hospitals, schools and other civilian…