The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

City is home to around 1.5m people, with many desperate to escape

Luda Sviridok left Kharkiv with her two daughters while her husband and son stayed behind to help others.

WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGES: The horror of Putin’s murderous onslaught was captured in distressing photos of a man carrying a dying baby into a hospital

SYTNYAKY, Ukraine — The shell that reamed the Russian soldiers’ vehicle scattered them in all directions. One was face down on the asphalt, arms outstretched. Another was a mass of white and red in barely-there fatigues. Heat had singed the skin of the third, and the fourth had been thrown…

WARNING - DISTRESSING IMAGES The parents took the baby and their other children into hiding when Vladimir Putin targeted Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, with the area coming under a bombardment of rockets and missiles

The mortal remains of Naveen have been secured, embalmed and kept in a mortuary on the outskirts of Kharkiv

Four months after 97-year-old amateur Leonid Stanislavskyi's dreams came true when he played with 21-times Grand Slam champion Rafa Nadal, the Ukrainian is enduring his worst nightmare in Kharkiv as Russian forces bomb the city.

Thousands of women and children, many weeping and numb with exhaustion, arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine on Saturday as the state railway put on more trains to rescue people from fierce Russian attacks on eastern cities.

They say they braved odds to get out of warzone, help came only after they crossed the border