The Latest Breaking News from NATO

Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, who is a high-ranking ally of Vladimir Putin, told TV pundits on state-controlled propaganda programme Russia-1 that it was NATO's fault the invasion is dragging on

We hope for a negotiated settlement of the war, says Finnish Minister

Vladimir Putin’s military assault continues in face of near-unanimous international condemnation

Vladimir Putin has placed the Kremlin’s strategic nuclear weapons forces on ‘high alert’, prompting fears over what could happen next

The grotesque images of civilians being slaughtered in Ukraine echo the horrors I witnessed covering the war in Bosnia three decades ago, and President Joe Biden was right to use the word “genocide” to describe the mass murder Russia is committing in Ukraine.

Lord Peter Ricketts - the UK's first National Security Adviser - says Vladimir Putin is becoming "increasingly desperate" to cut off the supply of arms into Ukraine

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said there had not been any recent diplomatic communications between Russia and Ukraine at the level of their foreign ministries and that the situation in the port of Mariupol, which he described as "dire", may be a "red line" in the path of negotiations.

The arms Ukraine receives will be vital to the outcome of the war, but will it get the influx of heavy weapons it needs?

Ankara's support of Kyiv and diplomatic efforts to end the Ukrainian war has won plaudits from its western allies, including France, offering the hope of a reset of deeply strained relations.