The Latest Breaking News from Irpin

The head of Kyiv region police said that one journalist has been killed while another has been injured in the city of Irpin close to the capital.

The man, widely named as 51-year-old Brett Renaud, and another journalist were shot as they crossed a checkpoint in Irpin

Another reporter was also injured in Irpin, near Kyiv

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A barrage of Russian missiles hit a large Ukrainian base near the border with NATO member Poland on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding 134, a local official said, in an escalation of the war to the west of the country as fighting raged elsewhere.

Rocket attack on military base near Lviv kills at least 35, as US film-maker Brent Renaud dies in Irpin

Lviv's regional governor said on Sunday that at least 35 people had been killed in a Russian missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility in Yavoriv near the Polish border. Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces of shooting and killing an American journalist in Irpin later in the day.

Ukraine news from March 13: About 100 aerial bombs have been dropped on Mariupol as Russian forces blockade the city.

Around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of Ukrainian cities on Saturday, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, almost twice the number who managed to get out the previous day.

A giant fireball exploding from the side of an apartment building in the hard-hit port of Mariupol was just one of the many disturbing signs of ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine on Friday.

Ukraine-Russia news from March 12: Moscow says arms shipments to Ukraine ‘legitimate targets’, intensifies Kyiv attacks.