The Latest Breaking News from Odesa

The president suggested Russia is preparing for heavy losses

LVIV, Ukraine — Far from the war’s front lines, central and western Ukraine were on high alert Friday after Russian missiles rained down on the capital, Kyiv, killing at least one person and shattering a relative return to calm that had seen the United Nations chief visiting mass graves on…

While the world’s eyes have been on civilian casualties, forced displacement and potential war crimes on Ukrainian land, the plight of hundreds of seafarers trapped in commercial ships for the past several months has gone mostly unnoticed. They have been stranded in the main Ukrainian ports of Mariupol, Kherson and…

The second stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is underway. The scope of the war now appears to be establishing full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. If successful, this would mean Russian occupation of approximately one-third of Ukraine, cutting the country off from its Black Sea ports, including Odesa.

The road near Odesa to be named after Britain’s PM is a country lane with overgrown vegetation

Yuriy Glodan had only gone out to the shops when the missile hit his apartment killing his wife and infant child

Eight die in Russian missile attack on Odesa

Baby Kira’s broken-hearted father wrote: ‘My dear ones, Kingdom of Heaven! You are in our hearts!’

A Ukrainian woman and her three-month-old baby are among eight people killed in missile attacks on Odesa, officials say.