--Cites really difficult situation for Kyiv's forces in Bakhmut.--Says 'corresponding' decisions may be needed to save Kyiv troops.--Hails Poland's 'historic' role in rallying Western support.--Poland pledges more MiG jets for Kyiv during Zelensky visit.--France's Macron

Russian President Vladimir Putin today told the new US ambassador in Moscow that Washington was responsible for the "Ukrainian crisis" while accepting her credentials in a Kremlin ceremony.."Relations between Russia and the United States, from which global security and stability directly d

Ukraine’s military said its troops were locked in combat with Russian forces around the administration building of Bakhmut yesterday, and it poured scorn on Russian claims that mercenary fighters had captured the eastern city after months of warfare.

Russian missiles hit a densely populated area of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka yesterday, killing six people, police said.

The UN Security Council was divided Friday as Western nations expressed concern about Moscow’s announcement it will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, but permanent Council member Russia remained defiant.

The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has been paid $14.37 million insurance claim for its damaged vessel Banglar Samriddhi hit by a missile in a Ukrainian port last year immediately after Russian invasion in Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Ukraine would “never forgive” Moscow for its occupation of Bucha, a year after the town became a symbol of alleged Russian war crimes.

Russia's war in Ukraine has made severe rights violations "shockingly routine", and is distracting humanity from battling existential threats to its survival, the UN rights chief warned today..Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk denounced horrific abuses ca

Ukraine acknowledged some Russian gains inside the eastern battlefield city of Bakhmut, while insisting yesterday that it was inflicting greater losses on the Russian attackers than its own forces were taking in defence.

Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to escalate Moscow's diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia

In the cellar of a Kyiv kindergarten decorated with bunting and wall paintings of doughnuts and cats, dozens of children are taking shelter during an air raid.

The Kremlin said yesterday that Russia’s confrontation with hostile states and what it called a “hybrid war” being waged against it by the West would last a long time.

Ukraine yesterday said it had shot down a dozen Russian drones over the capital Kyiv, adding that there had been no casualties as a result of Moscow’s latest aerial barrage.

Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel yesterday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv seeks to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counterassault of its own.

A top security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Russian plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would destabilise that country, which he said had been taken “hostage” by Moscow.

A top security adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russian plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would destabilise that country, which he said had been taken "hostage" by Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus, bringing the arms to a country at the gates of the European Union..Putin has previously issued thinly veiled warnings that he could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if Russi

The United Nations said Friday it was “deeply concerned” by what it said were summary executions of prisoners of war by both Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.

Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region yesterday, pressing on with their offensive despite assertions from Kyiv that Moscow’s assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.

Ukraine's army said Thursday that it had mistakenly announced the withdrawal of Russian forces from the southern city of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson region