The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

The head of Europe’s leading human rights organisation, the Council of Europe, told Euronews that European countries need to provide the budgetary resources and political will to ensure accountability for Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine.

France's armed forces will launch phase two of their flagship Orion 26 military exercises in Saint-Nazaire, on the country's west coast, on Sunday. As war rages in Ukraine, more than 10,000 military personnel are preparing for high-intensity warfare in drills designed to ready France to defend European territory from a…

Russia, Ukraine and the US met for a second time this week for trilateral talks to discuss a possible cessation of hostilities. Once again little was resolved apart from a prisoner swap, something that has happened several times over the four years of the full-scale conflict between the two countries.

March WTI crude oil (CLH26 ) today is down -2.22 (-3.41%), and March RBOB gasoline (RBH26 ) is down -0.0469 (-2.39%). Crude oil and gasoline prices are sharply lower today after the dollar index (DXY00 ) rallied to a1.5-week high. Also, US-Iran tensions eased, weighing on crude prices, after Iran...

In an interview with Euronews, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski warned that ending Russia's war in Ukraine without Kyiv’s full consent would undermine Western unity and embolden authoritarian regimes worldwide.

Ukraine and Russia will exchange 157 prisoners each following peace talks that officials say were ‘productive’

EU locks in a €90bn Ukraine package for defence and public services, with opt-outs, "pay to play" access for UK firms and a fast-track Parliament vote.

Higher education institutions are frequent casualties in violent conflicts. In Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan, to mention only a few recent examples, university campuses have been bombed. Academics, staff and students have been killed, injured or displaced. Teaching, learning and research have been undermined or come to a halt.

Prisoner exchange agreed at most significant contact between Kyiv and Moscow in months, but ‘work remains’

Meanwhile, the Kremlin-affiliated media outlets revealed that Moscow’s key demand is not only full Russian control over Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but also official recognition of Donbas as Russian territory by all sides, including Ukraine.

Amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings in Moscow and Abu Dhabi, in an interview on TV channel France 2 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his European partners – as well as United States President Donald Trump – to put more pressure on Russia to end the four-year war.