The overnight strikes killed at least eight people and injured 77 more, local officials have said

Ukraine's leader has ruled out recognising Russian control of the peninsula as part of a Trump peace plan.

At least nine people are killed and dozens injured in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital, officials say.

(Reuters) - Combined overnight missile and drone attacks killed nine people in Ukrainian capital Kyiv and injured 63, local emergency services said

(Reuters) - An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday

The Ukrainian president has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean Peninsula.

At least 30 were injured in the city of Marhanets in central-south Ukraine.

(Reuters) - Russia's drone attack on the city of Marhanets in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region killed seven people and injured six others, the regional governor said on social media on Wednesday

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S., Ukrainian and European officials meet in London on Wednesday to discuss ending Russia's war in Ukraine but chances of any breakthrough look slim after most foreign ministers pulled out despite U.S

Russian military authorities say the blast in a warehouse is due to a fire.

He was known for gigantic and often controversial monuments, including some taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The Russian president's proposal is the first signal of bilateral talks since the early days of the war.

Air raid alerts are issued for Kyiv and other regions as blasts are reported in Mykolaiv, a southern city.

(Reuters) -Russia launched missiles and drones targeting Ukraine early on Monday, waking up Kyiv and the eastern half of the country, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin came to an end

Kyiv reports many cases of Russian shelling, while Moscow speaks of Ukrainian drone attacks during a truce that has now expired.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Sunday it would welcome the extension beyond Sunday of a one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin even as the Kremlin said earlier there was no order for an extension

The missions are part of the UK's contribution to Nato's enhanced air policing around eastern Poland.

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that the Russian army is making a pretence of an Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, continuing overnight attempts to inflict front-line losses on Ukraine

A capsule with Dan Pettit and his two Russian crewmates lands in Kazakhstan after a space station mission.

(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the Russian leader and an advocate for the war in Ukraine

(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday

The Ukrainian president accused Moscow of breaking the truce, but said Ukraine would follow it if Russian attacks ceased.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Saturday reacted cautiously to Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration of a unilateral 30-hour Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, saying Moscow could stop the war immediately if it wanted to

KYIV (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv killed one person and injured 57 more on Friday morning, emergency services said

(Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S

Steve Witkoff appeared to suggest that a peace deal hinged on the status of five Ukrainian regions.

Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony after being accused of taking bribes.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air defence systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones over six Russian regions overnight, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday

LONDON (Reuters) - Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow's warming relations with the U.S

(Reuters):Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip afterHamas' October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow's longstanding ties with Palestinians helped secure their freedom

(Reuters) -A Russian drone attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa overnight injured three people, sparked fires and damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, officials of the southern Ukrainian region said early on Wednesday

Anna Alexandrova denied posting anti-war messages, insisting the case was motivated by a land squabble.

The US president said that you "don't start a war against someone 20 times your size" and hope people give you missiles.

(Reuters) -Kyiv forces hit Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine with dozens of drones, killing an elderly woman, injuring nine people and sparking fries in several buildings in the region's administrative centre, Russian authorities said on Tuesday

The BBC's James Waterhouse describes the scene of a Russian strike that has killed at least 34 people.

Photos and videos of the aftermath show bloodied bodies scattered in the streets around the impact of the missiles

Two ballistic missiles struck the heart of the city on Sunday morning as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, according to officials.

Ukrainians in Russian-held land tell the BBC about the difficulties of life under occupation.

CHORNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine is seeking solutions to repair the damage caused by a Russian drone attack to the confinement vessel at the stricken Chornobyl nuclear power plant, a government minister said on Saturday

The US envoy holds a third round of talks with the Russian president as agreement on a truce remains elusive.

Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was released by Moscow in return for the freeing of Russian-German Arthur Petrov.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -U.S. and Russian delegations arrived on Thursday for talks in Istanbul on normalising the work of their diplomatic missions after the war in Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War

(Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Wednesday that they were probing the alleged killing of eight Russian civilians by Ukrainian soldiers in Russia's Kursk region, parts of which were controlled by Kyiv before Russia regained ground this year

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that bombing Iran would not pave the way to peace with, and that Moscow hoped that talks between the U.S

Ukraine's operations in a second region in Russia are explicitly acknowledged for the first time.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's X social media account was attacked on Tuesday morning, with fake posts appearing, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government office spokesperson said

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday en route to the International Space Station (ISS)

(Reuters) - A Moscow court fined the Telegram platform 7 million roubles ($80,000) for refusing to remove content calling for terrorist attacks and participation in protests aiming to overthrow the Russian government, news agency TASS reported on Tuesday

KYIV (Reuters) - Three women were injured and several fires broke out in a Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv late on Saturday, Ukraine's officials said

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The head of the city defence council says a ballistic missile hit a residential area, killing children on a playground.

KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack killed at least 18 people, including nine children, in a residential area of the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said, but Russia's Defence Ministry said it had targeted a military gathering there

(Reuters) - A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, triggered fires in an apartment building and a private house late on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people, local officials said

(Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by dissident Alexei Gorinov against a three-year prison sentence for "justifying terrorism", a human rights group said

(Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on Thursday, state media reported

Russia calls up 160,000 men aged 18-30 as it moves to expand the size of its military.

Russian aggression and US isolationism push a once hesitant Germany to invest heavily in defence.

Ukraines air force reported that Russia fired 111 exploding drones and decoys in the latest wave of attacks overnight into Sunday.

(Reuters) -Russian drones struck a military hospital, shopping centre, apartment blocks and other targets in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, late on Saturday, killing two people and injuring at least 25 others, local officials and the Ukrainian military said

(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine expected a strong response from Western countries to the nearly daily Russian drone attacks on its territory

Another 21 people are injured, as a restaurant and several buildings are set ablaze in the city, local officials say.

(Reuters) -A mass Russian drone attack killed four people, injured 15 and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said

(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary administration to allow for new elections and the signature of key accords with the aim of reaching a settlement in the war, Russian news agencies reported early on Friday