The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

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Moscow has largely relied on what it describes as voluntary enlistment

Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia under the false promise of civilian work and then forced to fight in the Ukraine war

Workers claim they were threatened with 10-year jail terms and beaten

Zelensky says there was no 'military justification' in Russia’s targeting civilians on a passenger train

Strikes knock out electricity to 80% of Ukraine’s second-largest city and surrounding region and damage 11th-century Kyiv monastery. What we know on day 1,434

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said a security agreement with the United States has been finalised following his most recent meeting with Donald Trump. Taken at face value, Zelensky’s repeated assertions that the document is ready to sign looks like major win for Kyiv. The reality is very different.

As Hungary’s elections approach, Orbán has escalated an anti-Ukraine campaign and accused his rival, Péter Magyar, of entering into a pact with Kyiv to overthrow his government and install a pro-Western administration.

March WTI crude oil (CLH26 ) today is down -0.42 (-0.69%), and March RBOB gasoline (RBH26 ) is down -0.0344 (-1.84%). Crude oil and gasoline prices are trading lower today, falling back after last Friday's rally. Crude oil prices are lower today due to long liquidation pressure and easing disruptions...

As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winter, says war correspondent Janine di Giovanni