The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

As the war enters its 478th day, these are the main developments.

We are living in troubled times. Too much is happening too fast. People are confused. The Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze has, indeed, popularised a word for it. He calls it a "polycrisis".

Annual event headlined by Vladimir Putin described as ‘totally toxic’ since full-scale invasion of Ukraine

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization has seen no evidence that Russia has changed its nuclear posture

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) want access to a location near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. They want to clarify why there are discrepancies between different measurements of the reservoir that supplies water to cool the facility’s reactors.

After months of speculation about when Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, many of them trained at military bases in Europe and outfitted with heavy Western armor, are now launching simultaneous operations at several points along the 600-mile-long…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a delegation of African leaders on a peace mission to Ukraine and Russia this week amid attempts to assuage Western concerns that South Africa is siding with Russia in the conflict despite its proclaimed neutrality – which has Ramaphosa doing a round of…

Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Thursday to “rebuild everything” destroyed in Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s war ahead of a recovery summit in London.

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says Ukrainian personnel being trained so when planes are delivered, pilots are ready

Ukraine counteroffensive making slow progress, say western officials; Chechnya ruler Kadyrov says right-hand man alive after all

Ukraine says its forces recaptured 100sq km, but Russia’s President Putin says counteroffensive attacks failed.