The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Russia launched nighttime attacks on several cities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said Saturday as they and officials in Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country's east. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United Nations and the…

Ukraine says Black Sea ports ready to export grain; Kyiv calls on world leaders to condemn Russia over attack that led to death of 40 PoWs. This blog is now closed

Barely a kilometre from Russian positions defending the captured eastern city of Izium, Ukrainian and foreign fighters hunker in a dank basement. Artillery rains down on them most nights, shaking loose the plaster and filling the air with dust.

Martha Aitken from Perthshire thinks nothing of her own safety as she runs onto the frontline with her team to save up to 100 people a day.

Alika has a UK sponsor, and applied for visa in March, but is one of few children left in her Kharkiv neighbourhood

We are now pausing our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. We will return in a few hours to bring you all the latest developments.

Tragic Dmytro was waiting at a bus stop with his sister Ksenia, 15, when the Putin missile struck, killing him and seriously wounding her

The world relies on Ukraine for food, but Russia’s invasion means millions could go hungry despite any deal allowing grain to be exported. Bel Trew talks to farmers in Kharkiv, Donbas, Dnipro and Kyiv

Ukraine and Russia are set to sign a deal Friday to unblock grain exports and relieve a global food crisis, as a critical Russian gas pipeline to Europe reopened. But there was no respite in the conflict on the ground, with Russian artillery on Thursday pounding Ukraine's second largest city…