The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday his main aim in Ukraine after 30 months of fighting was to capture the eastern Donbas area -- and claimed that Ukraine's Kursk counter-offensive had made that easier.

Russian leader claims Kyiv’s bid had an opposite effect, allowing Moscow to accelerate its eastern Ukraine offensive.

Designers display creativity and resilience as show is held in Kyiv for first time since full-scale Russian invasion

Russian troops are inching ever close to Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, a vital logistical hub for Kyiv’s outgunned and outnumbered forces, leading some analysts to question the wisdom of a Ukrainian lightning offensive on Russian soil that was intended to distract Moscow from its Donbas push.

Dmytro Kuleba -- who resigned as Ukraine's top diplomat Wednesday -- tirelessly toured the world pleading for more military support and for Kyiv to be given the green light to strike targets deep inside Russia.

Ukraine’s diversion of troops for the Kursk attack has left parts of Donetsk vulnerable, say analysts.

Ukrainian war veterans with prosthetic limbs have taken to the runway in Kyiv as the country's fashion week returned home for the first time since the Russian invasion in 2022

180 more people have been wounded after two ballistic missiles hit Ukrainian city, says president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Soldiers say they had no warning of what they were undertaking before the morale-boosting attack began

As the war enters its 921st day, these are the main developments.

International condemnation at Russian president’s unimpeded visit; bombing greets Ukrainian schoolchildren on first day back. What we know on day 923