The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Ukraine’s allies promise to send more air defence systems and missiles to Kyiv as Russia renews aerial bombardment.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called off a planned visit to Kyiv on Thursday for security reasons, his office said on Wednesday.

The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week are complicating Israel's balancing act between Russia and the West

Several loud explosions have been heard in central Kyiv, according to AFP reporters. Meanwhile, the head of the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine said that pro-Kremlin officials were evacuating the city along with all other civilian inhabitants but vowed Moscow's forces would keep fighting. Read FRANCE 24’s liveblog…

Civilians likely biggest losers after Russia delivers rapid knockout to nearly a third of country’s power plants

Family, penury, and guilt are motivating refugees to come back.

Moscow is poised to evacuate thousands of people from an entire Ukrainian region, removing them across the border to Russia.

Russia evacuates civilians from occupied Kherson as new military commander says military situation in the south of Ukraine is ‘tense’

President Vladimir Putin ordered all of Russia to support the war effort in Ukraine on Wednesday, as the Russian-appointed administration of Kherson prepared to evacuate the only regional capital Moscow has captured during its invasion.