The Latest Breaking News from Izium

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy puts the blame on Russia and likens the discovery to alleged atrocities in Bucha, on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv, in the early stages of the war

Ukrainian authorities have found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the eastern city of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces, a regional police official said on Thursday, adding some of the people had been killed by shelling and air strikes.

Across a damaged footbridge over the river Siverskyi Donets, shrapnel-sprayed walls and charred Soviet-era housing stand in a panorama of provincial devastation in Ukraine's liberated town of Izium.

After Ukrainian forces recapture the town, its people say Russians came knowing who they wanted and took them away

Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital while highlighting Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv's soldiers pressed a stunning advance…

Ukrainian president thanks paratroopers who took part in liberation of north-eastern city of Izium last week

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the newly liberated town of Izium. The town was recaptured during a successful counteroffensive last week along with a number of other settlements

Life ‘comes back’ to Izium after Russian retreat, says Ukrainian president

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid a surprise visit on Wednesday to the newly recaptured town of Izium, a key logistics hub in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and thanked his army for their success in retaking territory from Russian forces.