The Latest Breaking News from Finland

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland.

Russia on Saturday halted providing natural gas to neighboring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for NATO membership, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in rubles. Natural gas accounts for about eight percent of Finland's energy consumption and most of it comes from Russia, AFP said.…

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms.

In what would be its biggest victory yet in the war with Ukraine, Russia claimed to have captured the strategic port city of Mariupol

Last group of Ukrainian soldiers in Azovstal steelworks surrendered, Russia’s defence ministry said late Friday

Turkey's approach to the NATO accession process of Sweden and Finland is not a bilateral issue between Washington and Ankara, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, but added that Washington was speaking with Ankara and it remained confident that the dispute would be overcome.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Mariupol, city of resistance, falls … underground life of the last child in the village … Putin micromanaging conflict, sources in west believe

Russia's Defence Minister says Moscow has almost taken full control of Ukraine's south-eastern region of Luhansk, one of two regions it says are independent and has vowed to liberate.