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

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

Volodymyr Zelensky is on a historic visit to South Africa to counter Russia's influence on the continent.

Negotiations are gathering pace but the proposals being put forward by Trump's team still have major gaps.

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

The latest twist in Ukraine talks features on many front pages as well as the IMF's verdict on Trump's tariffs

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

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.

The 30-hour "Easter truce" and the reported violations underscore the difficulty in securing even a brief pause in fighting.

(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.

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine proposes that Russia abandon drone and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S

Zelenskyy said that Russia must fully adhere to the ceasefire conditions and reiterated Ukraine's offer to extend the truce for 30 days, starting midnight Sunday.

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of violating a 30-hour truce, but it comes as diplomatic efforts pick up, Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg writes.

(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

(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

Sunday's front pages include stories on Russia being accused of breaking an Easter truce it proposed in Ukraine.

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

(Reuters) - Britain has urged Russia to commit to a full ceasefire in Ukraine, "not just a one-day pause", its foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday

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

, (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia conducted a swap of more than 500 prisoners of war on Saturday, the latest in a series of exchanges since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago

According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire will last from 6 p.m

As Trump threatens to walk from peace talks, a mineral deal looks unlikely to offer Ukraine security.

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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

The move would be a step towards a final deal derailed by a row at the White House in February.

(Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday that Moscow was ready to continue joint work with Washington to eliminate the longstanding causes of the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to broker a swift end to the ongoing conflict

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of President Donald Trump's top national security aides plan to hold talks in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday as the United States and Europe search for common ground on ending the Ukraine war and averting an Iran conflict

(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

(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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Monday to bolster Ukraine in its war with Russia, another effort to pressure the Trump administration to back the Kyiv government, sources familiar with the effort said

Trump called Sunday's attack, which killed 34 people, "horrible" and "a mistake", with Germany calling it a war crime.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar vowed on Sunday to unlock billions of euros of suspended European Union funding to revive the economy if elected next year, and to hold a referendum on whether Ukraine should join the 27-member bloc

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

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring four people and damaging residential and commercial buildings in Kyiv and other parts of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday

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

Europe's defence ministers said they saw no sign of an end to the war.

The Duke of Sussex's trip to Ukraine and further reaction to Donald Trump's tariffs feature on Friday's front pages.

The package includes funding for radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones

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

The Duke of Sussex visits an orthopaedic clinic in the western city of Lviv.

Coalition of the willing meet in Brussels to discuss plans for peacekeeping force.

It follows Beijing's denial that many of its citizens are involved in the conflict.

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

As the "coalition of the willing" meets at Nato headquarters today, pledging to support Ukraine with a peacekeeping force, how have the last three years shaped the wartime president - and where does he go from here?

President Zelensky says two soldiers were captured while fighting in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, which the U.S

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

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

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

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European foreign ministers at a NATO meeting blamed Russia on Friday for thwarting a U.S. push for peace in the Ukraine war, in a clear bid to persuade the Trump administration to take a harder line towards Moscow

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's pledges to increase defence spending to help Ukraine could scupper government efforts to rein in the mammoth public debt, analysts say, posing a threat to the creditworthiness of the euro zone's third-largest economy

(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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Half of the U.S. Senate - 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats - joined together on Tuesday to introduce sanctions that would be imposed on Russia if it refuses to engage in good faith negotiations for peace with Ukraine

A nationwide vote would be difficult, but some say there are good reasons to hold one soon