Defiant Ukrainian troops tell Russians: ‘Go home while you’re still alive’
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...
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Ukraine war: Ukrainian fightback gains ground west of Kyiv
“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...
A bomb hit this theatre hiding hundreds – here’s how one woman survived
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...
Ukraine conflict: Russia trying to starve Mariupol into surrender – MP
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...
In Mariupol, children bear the brunt of Vladimir Putin’s war
“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...
Ukraine war: ‘Tanks in streets’ as fighting hits Mariupol centre
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...
Ukraine war: Drone footage shows level of devastation in Mariupol
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...
Shells rain down on Kharkiv as Ukraine’s army stands firm
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...
Ukraine war: Russia attacks theatre sheltering civilians, Mariupol says
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...
Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian journalist tells of 14-hour interrogation
Images of Ms Ovsyannikova’s protest were quickly shared across the world after she ran on to the set of one of Russia’s most-watched news programmes,...