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Irish President, Michael D Higgins, offered his condolences to the man’s family. “As a people, we take great pride in our unbroken record of peacekeeping...

Russia invaded at 05:00 on 24 February. The night before, 22-year-old Vlad and his brother-in-arms Mark, also 22, were at a fellow private’s wedding. Columns...

“Essentially, what [Ukrainian forces] are trying to do is cut off an entire side of the attempted encirclement of Kyiv, which would force the Russians...

First, she got to the village of Pishchanka. “I met a woman,” she said, “who asked if I was OK. I started to cry.” She...

Should Russia capture Mariupol, it would help it create a land corridor between the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, controlled by Russian-backed separatists and...

“Another boy,” says the doctor, “a six-year-old, with shrapnel in his skull described – without any tears or emotion – watching his mother burn to...

Mr Boychenko, the Mariupol mayor, said 40,000 people had managed to leave the city in the last five days, and that 20,000 others were waiting...

Blocks of flats and a shopping mall have been completely destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine. The besieged port city has faced constant shelling since the war...

I ask if she has a message for Vladimir Putin. “No,” she replies, firmly. “No, it seems to me that this man has already lost...

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, called for better access to civilians caught up in the war, which he...