The Latest Breaking News from Belgorod

Drones target Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Belgorod

Ukrainian officials report dozens of projectiles fired at capital. Russian officials suspend schools following attack.

Russia downed 158 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and surrounding areas as well as the Belgorod and Kursk border regions overnight, the defence ministry said on Sunday. Amid ongoing fighting in east Ukraine, Russia said its forces had captured two more Ukrainian settlements. Read our blog to see how the day's…

Russian strikes killed at least six people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials said on Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had dropped a guided bomb on the city and reiterated his call for Western allies to allow long-range attacks on Russian military air bases. Later Friday,…

IAEA has urged both sides to refrain from fighting around nuclear plants

Kyiv and Moscow trade attacks overnight as Russia sends more artillery units to Kursk to push back Ukraine’s army.

Russian officials say five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured

Volunteers rally for people displaced by Ukraine’s incursion, but in Moscow, some brush off Kyiv’s drone assault.

Ukraine said it now controlled dozens of settlements and Sudzha, a town eight kilometres (five miles) from the border.

Ukraine on Thursday claimed fresh advances in its cross-border offensive into Russia, where it said it had seized over a thousand square kilometres, the biggest attack by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War II. Russia said it had recaptured a first village from Ukrainian forces in the…

Ukrainian leader says 100 Russian soldiers captured since surprise incursion began, as Russia denies strategic impact.