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The journalist and broadcaster was reporting from Kyiv when Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

The UN meeting comes a year on from the Russian invasion, with the anniversary due to be marked in the UK and countries around the world.

They stopped short of Boris Johnson’s demand for UK to ‘break the ice’ and supply Ukraine with fighter jets

Rishi Sunak will use the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to urge fellow world leaders to ‘move faster’ in arming its troops.

Only handing Kyiv a ‘decisive advantage on the battlefield’ will ‘shift Putin’s mindset’, PM to warn

Despite nine sets of sanctions imposed by the European Union, the Russian economy only experienced a small contraction of its GDP in 2022. The "resilience" of the Russian economy was hailed on Tuesday by President Vladimir Putin during his state of the nation address. However, certain Western observers and politicians…

Russian forces were trying to close their circle around the small mining city of Bakhmut on Monday, while rain and an early spring thaw turned eastern Ukraine's battlefields to mud which could hamper both sides as they try to take the initiative.

Just before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which falls tomorrow France's President Emmanuel Macron declared that he wanted to see Russia "defeated, but not crushed". That is a very fine distinction, but an important one.

Ukraine – a year of war: The Independent presents a selection of the most striking images of the conflict