The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Russia has attacked Ukrainian cities again overnight as Ukraine accuses Russia of dragging its feet on new U.S.-brokered peace talks

Zelensky thanked the UK for a ‘new and timely air defence package’ worth £500m ahead of the conference

The much-anticipated decision is set to transform Ukraine’s defence industry and allow Kyiv’s partners to access the rarest type of weapons – those tested on the actual battlefield, the Ukrainian president said on Monday.

Ukraine and France have agreed to start joint weapons production, Ukraine's defence minister said on Monday, after hosting his French counterpart in Kyiv.

In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between confidence and confusion. Kyiv would fall within days, one story would claim, then another would argue that Ukraine was winning. Russian forces were described as incompetent, then as…

Kyiv has denied accusations by Moscow that the shooting was an attempted assassination by Ukraine

Kyiv says its military still holds on in northern part of Pokrovsk and is defending a smaller city nearby

The development follows US-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi during the week, which produced no breakthrough. Russia continues to press Ukraine to give up the Donbas region, a condition Kyiv says it will never accept.

New reports suggest that US negotiators are hoping to wrap up talks within weeks