The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Putin thanks North Korea for support ahead of visit; Russian missile strike injures 22 in Poltava region. What we know on day 846

A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, has left Havana’s port after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean

SIPRI notes the effects of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in reducing international security.

Russia and Ukraine are set to remain locked in battle for the foreseeable future after an international gathering billed as a first step toward peace delivered no eye-catching diplomatic breakthrough that might suggest a coming end to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II

To a degree never seen before, Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza is killing entire Palestinian families

Dozens of families have lost 25 or more of their members in Israeli strikes in the first three months of the Gaza war

A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023

States are on course to spend $100bn a year, driven by a sharp increase in US defence budgets

Ukraine president says talks with Moscow could start tomorrow ‘if they leave our legal territories’; more than 80 countries and organisations back Ukraine’s territorial integrity. What we know on day 845