Russia launched what it calls a special military operation in Ukraine because its concerns around peace accords between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists were ignored, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying yesterday.

The southern Ukrainian city of Odesa was left without power yesterday following a night-time attack by “kamikaze drones” launched by Russia, authorities said, as the US announced new military aid for Kyiv and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran.

The Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate who heads the organisation Memorial slammed President Vladimir Putin's "insane and criminal" war in Ukraine as he accepted his award in Oslo on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said the West’s desire to maintain its dominance on the world stage was increasing the risks of conflict.

Russian forces are pressing forward with air and ground attacks on several settlements in eastern Ukraine, officials said yesterday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated seizing territory during the nine-month war.

The United States has said it hadn’t “enabled” Ukraine to carry out strikes inside Russia, after a spate of drone attacks on military-linked facilities deep within Russian territory.

Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as “the spirit of Ukraine” as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the resistance the country has shown in the face of Russia's invasion.

A third Russian airfield was ablaze yesterday from a drone strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres deep into Russian air space with attacks on two Russian air bases.

Ukraine said Russia had destroyed homes in the south and knocked out power in the north in a new round of missile attacks yesterday as the West tried to limit Moscow’s ability to finance its invasion by imposing a price cap on Russian seaborne oil.

Ukraine yesterday welcomed a $60 price cap on Russian oil agreed by the EU, G7 and Australia, saying it would “destroy” Russia’s economy.

The White House poured cold water Friday on President Joe Biden's conditional offer to sit down with President Vladimir Putin, saying he has "no intentions" at present of holding a meeting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “open to negotiations” on Ukraine but the West must accept Moscow’s demands, the Kremlin said yesterday, a day after US President Joe Biden said he was willing to talk if Putin were looking for a way to end the war.

President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin said on Friday after Joe Biden suggested he was prepared to speak to the Russian leader.

As many as 13,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia's invasion in February, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Nearly half of Ukraine’s electricity grid remains damaged, a private operator said yesterday, a week after the latest Russian strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure disrupted power to millions of people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces were trying to advance in the northeast and east and “planning something” in the south, while Nato yesterday sought to reassure other countries that fear destabilisation from Moscow.

Nato allies will ramp up aid for Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin is using winter as a weapon of war because his forces are failing on the battlefield, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.

A communications line created between the militaries of the United States and Russia at the start of Moscow's war against Ukraine has been used only once so far, a US official told Reuters..The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the United States initiated a call thro

Ukraine yesterday said Russia was preparing for a fresh wave of missile attacks on its energy grid that have plunged swathes of the country into the cold and dark.

Exports of Ukraine's grain will not reach 3 million tonnes in November as Russia tries to limit ship inspections at ports, Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said late on Sunday.