Von der Leyen accuses Russia of ‘hoarding its own food exports as a form of blackmail’

Daughter of military nurse recounts her mother's three months in Mariupol's factory-fortress

President says up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers dying each day in Donbas amid Russian assault

Kyiv insists it will not surrender territory to Russia to secure peace deal

Moscow set to turn off gas flow to Finland as Nato bid sours relations

Kyiv’s forces still plagued by lack of equipment in war with Russia’s vast military

First war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine begins as fighting continues in Donbas

Sappers have already dealt with 100,000 shells, mines and other explosives left by the war

Moscow suggests steelwork defenders be treated as terrorists and subject to death penalty

Stubborn defence of Azovstal has helped Ukraine tie up Russian troops in Mariupol

People begin to return to formerly vibrant city disfigured by scarred buildings and shell craters

Zelenskiy urged countries to provide his military with more urgently needed weapons

Villager tells how her husband and adult son were gunned down as they drove to hospital

Prisoner taken into battle and witnesses looting but lives to tell the tale

US warns Moscow preparing for ‘prolonged conflict’ with western-allied neighbour

Russian president claims invasion of Ukraine safeguarding motherland from the hostile West

Putin to address Russians and oversee Red Square parade of military might

‘We are basically dead men’ says commander who has remained in besieged factory

Kyiv and allies to discuss war effort as Kremlin prepares Red Square military parade

The journey to Odesa takes two or more days via scores of checkpoints manned by unpredictable Russian troops on backroads that sna(...)

Kyiv’s besieged troops in Azovstal steelworks hold out despite ‘bloody fighting’

Oil imports, top bank and alleged war crimes perpetrators targeted by new measures

At least 10 Ukrainians killed after factory in frontline city of Avdiivka shelled

Volunteers, politicians, businessmen and even crime bosses play role in war effort

First civilians to be evacuated from giant steel plant in Mariupol arrive in Zaporizhzhia

UN co-ordinates with Ukraine, Russia and Red Cross for ‘safe passage operation’

Call for powerful international response to attack while Russia takes ‘colossal losses’

‘To hell with tanks, we’re from Bashtanka!’ now a rallying cry after battle on southern plains

US unveils plans for €33bn in military aid to Ukraine despite Kremlin warnings

Serhiy Rzhavskyi and family fled devastated Ukrainian city after weeks of terror

Volunteers take used cars donated to Ukraine from abroad and prepare them for the front line

Government considering plans in light of Ukraine and housing crises

Kremlin vows West will fail in what it calls bid to split and ‘destroy Russia from within’

Lviv Letter: Thousands go back as Kyiv holds out and painful, costly burden of exile grows

Minister to outline plans to Cabinet addressing acute accommodation pressures

‘She never even got to see life,’ Odesa mayor says of three-month--old girl whose mother also died

Commander says Russia wants southern Ukraine and route to Moldovan enclave

Dentist Ivan Myno died in action; factory worker Lapat is recovering from shrapnel

Mariupol dead the victims of war crimes, says Ukraine as US pledges more weapons

Metalworks is refuge for Ukrainian troops and locals as latest Russian deadline passes

Missile strikes claim first civilian lives of war in ‘safe haven’ city of Lviv

Officials fear over 20,000 residents may have died in six-week siege of Mariupol

Russia’s threat deadline passes as besieged soldiers resist and Pope urges peace

Artillery attack the latest in series of deadly strikes on city just 35km from Russian border

US says ‘nothing will dissuade us’ from helping Ukraine

President Zelenskiy and CIA chief warn of nuclear threat from Kremlin

State to continue to provide non-lethal equipment to Ukraine and offer safe haven

Kremlin warns Finland and Sweden of ‘consequences’ if they join Nato

All crew evacuated following what Ukraine says was missile strike by its forces

International court's top prosecutor visits site of alleged Russian crimes near Kyiv

Biden refers to ‘genocide’ in Ukraine, saying Putin ‘is trying to wipe out the idea of being able to be Ukrainian’

Civilians in eastern Ukraine told to flee as battle for Donbas looms

Ukraine bracing for major onslaught by Moscow’s troops in its eastern Donbas region

Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine's children displaced six weeks after Russian invasion

Outflow of women and children continues but fighting-age men are stopped at border

Unicef says more than half Ukraine's child population displaced during month of fighting

Kremlin evokes crimes of 1940s independence fighters in ‘denazification’ of democratic Ukraine

Moscow says Biden comments about Putin put relations ‘on brink of collapse’

Deputy prime minister rejects Russian call for Mariupol surrender

Washington and Beijing discuss war that UN says has displaced nearly 10 million

China’s Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden that conflicts such as Ukraine are in no one’s interests

US president to urge Chinese leader Xi to distance himself from Kremlin aggression

Kremlin insists invasion on track as US prepares $800m in arms for Ukraine

Fleeing Russian liberals fear national disaster under increasingly isolated president

Irish cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed outside embattled capital

Deadlock in Kyiv-Moscow talks as Kremlin vows to achieve invasion goals

City’s main hospital faces surge of patients and supply problems amid fears of Russian bombs

Attack targets site used by Nato trainers but Kyiv and Moscow say talks may work

Ukraine says more than 1,500 civilians killed in Russian siege of Mariupol

Kyiv shares US and UK fears Russia may plan chemical attack during invasion

West seeks to avoid clash with Russia as two weeks of war drive 2.2m Ukrainians abroad

Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians hail unity and denounce Russia’s occupation of peninsula

Kyiv says compromise possible with Moscow but civilians struggle to flee onslaught

Ukrainian men aged 18-60 barred from leaving and expected to join fight against Russia

Humanitarian crisis deepens as evacuations fail and EU told to expect five million refugees

Civilian death toll from hostilities since invasion is at least 364, says United Nations

Lviv Letter: West Ukrainian hub looks out for Moscow agents amid patriotism and prayers

Ukraine pleads for air support as Russian missiles wreak deadly devastation

Volunteers in Lviv support displaced people and sign up to defend cities from Russian troops

Battle rages for key port amid reports of fire at one of Europe’s biggest nuclear power plants

Zelenskiy calls for meeting with Putin as concerns mount over Russian convoy outside Kyiv

Kyiv and Moscow to talk again amid increasingly bloody invasion

Fear and uncertainty pursue Ukrainians onto chaotic evacuation trains from their capital

Dead civil servants pulled from rubble of attack on regional government building in Kharkiv

Five civilians killed in a rocket attack on a Kyiv TV tower as Zelenskiy urges EU to prove it sides with country in conflict

Talks fail to halt war that has already sent 500,000 Ukrainians fleeing to EU states

People search for supplies and check on loved ones as barricades go up in Ukraine’s capital

EU to buy arms for Kyiv and aim sanctions at banks, media, air travel and oligarchs

Ukrainian civilians given guns as explosions shatter eerie silence of curfewed capital

Missile strikes shake city as Kremlin urges its troops to oust Zelenskiy

Civilians given weapons and urged to make petrol bombs as Russian onslaught continues

Ukrainian guards fire warning shots to prevent stampede at railway station

UN estimates some 100,000 Ukrainians fled their homes on first day of Russian onslaught

Heavy gunfire and explosions heard as president Zelenskiy vows to defend country

West aims new sanctions at Moscow as US says Kremlin seeks to ‘re-establish Soviet Union’

Kharkiv’s 1.4 million people decide whether to stay or go as Russia launches missile strikes

EU calls emergency summit as US warns that Moscow’s troops are ‘ready’ to attack

Preparations in strategic city Kharkiv include network of bomb shelters

Kyiv ‘used by third countries to create threats towards Russia’, Putin says

Columns of military vehicles including tanks seen on outskirts of city of Donetsk