The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Emergency decision is intended to halt slide after currency dropped to weakest point in almost 17 months

August 15 has been declared a national holiday to celebrate the Taliban takeover of Kabul from US-led foreign forces.

As recently as Monday, a Russian mine exploded in a Romanian Black Sea resort

Pressure for a ‘Hollywood-style’ breakthough against Russia’s forces is unrealistic, war analysts tell The Independent

Exclusive: Two years on from the Taliban takeover, one of the first Afghan families to arrive in the UK by small boat remains in Home Office limbo, as Nicola Kelly reports

Russia’s central bank has made a large interest rate hike of 3.5%

Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile attack overnight has damaged multiple civilian buildings in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv and injured local residents

Ukrainian farmer Victor Tsvik has harvested his wheat this month but exorbitant logistics costs and Russia’s blockade of the ports has made shipping grain too expensive for him

The Ukrainian air force said it destroyed 16 out of the 28 cruise missiles launched by Russia overnight

Some are spending life savings to stay out of the war, but such actions are seen as treasonous by those already fighting

Overnight air strikes killed at least three people in western Ukraine's Volyn region, the regional governor said early on Tuesday, as more strikes were reported in the neighbouring Lviv region. The attacks came a day after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was pictured visiting troops in the eastern frontline region of…