The Latest Breaking News from Michael Carpenter

Health officials issued the alert after the spread of cryptosporidiosis, an infection which causes serious gastrointestinal illness

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Ukraine president ready to speak to Putin ‘but only to him’; electricity supplier RAO Nordic says decision to suspend Finnish supply is ‘exceptional’

UK says failed Russian crossing of river shows pressure on troops; first war crimes trial begins in Kyiv

Russia’s lack of progress in its war against Ukraine has been noted by analysts since it launched a second phase.

Moscow may annex Luhansk and Donetsk ‘republics’ mid-May and turn Kherson into proxy state, US ambassador to OSCE says.

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

British defence chiefs said Russia has not succeeded in ‘translating numerical strength into decisive advantage’

Ukraine say Russian forces have launched a "powerful assault" on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where more than 200 civilians are still holed up with Ukrainian fighters, according to the city's mayor. Humanitarian workers say around 100 civilians have successfully been evacuated from the plant and are now in…