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Irina Starikova is said to have told her captors that Russian forces left her to die after she was wounded in battle.

The Russian president is alleged to have told former Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko that he could have soldiers on the ground in the capitals of Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Romania within 48 hours

Ukraine sees no signs on the ground that Russia has given up a plan to surround the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Ukrainian defence ministry spokesperson Oleksander Motuzyanyk said on Monday.

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.

Officials on both sides play down hopes of major breakthrough in Istanbul ceasefire negotiations

Vladimir Putin has refused to pull back his troops, while Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has constantly said that there will be no surrenders from his army in defence of their cities

The sea of refugees flooding the Hungary/Ukraine border have spoken to campaigns editor David Cohen about the horrors they have faced in recent weeks

David Cohen reports from Zahony on the Ukraine-Hungarian border

Ukrainian and Russian negotiators will resume face-to-face talks in Turkey this week. 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.

Ukraine's president says his country could declare neutrality and offer security guarantees to Russia to secure peace “without delay” in new talks due to start in Turkey

The manager talks about the first morning of the war, helping players across the border to Romania and his dream to lead his club again