The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

A flash of light that lit up the night sky above wartime Kyiv has led to widespread confusion, public speculation about what caused it, and lighthearted jokes about space aliens in a city more accustomed to Russian missile attacks.

Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday his country has received the US-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian airstrikes during the war. “Today, our beautiful Ukrainian sky becomes more secure because Patriot air defense systems have arrived in…

Yelyzaveta Tataryna originally planned to launch in Kyiv but was forced to flee when the the Russians invaded her homeland

Kyiv accuses Brazilian president’s initiative for giving equal weight to ‘the victim and the aggressor’

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in Ukraine, officials said Tuesday, as the war approaches its 14th month and Kyiv readies a possible counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons. A video released by the Kremlin and broadcast by Russian state television showed Putin arriving by helicopter…

Kyiv’s line has been to veto anything that could allow Russia to keep any territorial gains from Moscow’s invasion

Western officials admitted Kyiv would come under pressure over the timing of its long-awaited offensive - but insisted the regime must be left in charge of deciding when the time is right

Growing up near the border there was no physical barrier. Now citizens of both sides are forced to choose, says Artem Mazhulin, a Ukrainian journalist based in Kyiv

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the Brazilian capital on Monday as Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s pushes a diplomatic approach for peace in Ukraine that has irked both Kyiv and the West. The meeting between Lavrov and his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira was set in March,…