The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian officials began arriving in Turkey on Monday for a new round of talks as their countries battled well into a fifth week of war, with missiles raining down outside several cities Monday morning, including the capital of Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv.

Today it emerged 17,000 Russian troops have been killed in the invasion and 586 tanks blown up in ferocious fighting. Moscow has also lost 123 warplanes and 127 helicopters

With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to end the war

The mayor of Mariupol says 160,000 civilians remain trapped, calling for the city's complete evacuation.

Ukraine news from March 28: Joe Biden refuses to backtrack after saying Vladimir Putin ‘cannot remain in power’.

LVIV, Ukraine — Removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power is not on Washington’s agenda, the top U.S diplomat said Sunday as Ukraine’s leader accused the West of lacking courage for failing to commit fighter jets and tanks to his nation’s war against invading Russian forces.

Ukrainian general says Moscow unable to ‘swallow’ country but faces guerrilla warfare if it tries to divide it

Viacheslav, 84, and Zhanna, 82, made a dangerous 900km journey from their home in Kharkiv to Hungary after fearing they would not survive bombings and attacks from Russian artillery.

Ukraine’s nuclear watchdog says that a nuclear research facility in Kharkiv again has come under shelling by Russia and the fighting makes it impossible to assess the damage