The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Russia’s isolated war-criminal president is seeking out useful idiots like North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to bolster his military rampage against Ukraine, writes Simon Tisdall

Lawmakers in a breakaway Armenian-populated region of Azerbaijan have elected a new separatist president in a move that was strongly condemned by the Azerbaijani authorities

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who served in Scots Guards, had ‘passion to support freedom’, his mother says

The United Nastions atomic watchdog has reported a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, warning about a potential threat to nuclear safety amid escalating hostilities as Ukrainian forces continued pressing their counteroffensive on Saturday

UK PM meets Indian counterpart on fringes of summit to discuss cooperation on trade, education, research and defence – but not Ukraine

With Odesa out of action, Izmail and Reni are now the only places grain can reliably be exported

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, accompanied by a number of business leaders, is visiting Ukraine on Saturday for talks with his counterpart to show support for the war-torn country and emphasize his country’s backing of sanctions against Russia, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement

Under President Vladimir Putin’s nearly quarter-century in office, Russia’s quality of life rose markedly and the country opened itself to the world

Russian attack on Ukrainian police building kills one and wounds dozens; Zelenskiy says Putin ‘killed Prigozhin’; British military to monitor Black Sea

As the war enters its 563rd day, these are the main developments.

Cuba has acknowledged that there are "human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes" involving Cubans in Russia.