The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Electric pylons toppled, cables strewn across the ground; gutted houses and roads dotted with craters -- the village of Grakove in eastern Ukraine bears the scars of Ukraine's bitter counter-offensive. "It was frightening," said 61-year-old Anatoli Vasiliev, recalling this week's battle when Ukrainian troops recaptured Grakove from the Russians. "There…

Footage circulating online shows a bloodied soldier with a resemblance to Colonel General Andrei Sychevoi, a top Russian general believed to have been captured in a counteroffensive operation in Kharkiv

Western defense officials and analysts say Ukrainian forces have punched through Russian front lines south of the country’s second-largest city, taking thousands of square miles of territory and threatening to cut off Russian supply lines

Russian-installed administrator makes announcement after occupying forces pull out of two key towns in face of Ukrainian offensive