The Latest Breaking News from Chernihiv

Today's talks in Istanbul were the first face-to-face meeting between the sides since March 10 and follows more than a month of fighting

Russia has decided to drastically cut its military activity around Kyiv and Chernihiv in Ukraine, one of its deputy defence ministers said on Tuesday, after talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams in Istanbul.

Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko says 44 people are in need of urgent evacuation but leaving the city is impossible.

The mayor of Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv said on Saturday 44 severely wounded people, including three children, could not be evacuated to safer areas for treatment since the city had been cut off by Russian forces.

Like many residents of Ukraine's besieged city of Chernihiv, linguistics scholar Ihar Kazmerchak spends his nights in a bomb shelter and starts his day lining up for the little potable water authorities have left to hand out. Surrounded by Russian forces and under constant bombardment, the northern city known for…

Think tank says ‘increasingly static nature of the fighting reflects incapacity of Russian forces rather than any shift in Russian objectives or efforts’

Ukraine war news from March 26: Regional governor Maksym Kozytsky says two missile attacks wounded at least five people.

There are fears the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv could become the next Mariupol following the destruction of a crucial route for aid, food and evacuees.

The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has in effect been cut off by Russian forces, the regional governor said on Friday.